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I've spent the past few days formatting my book for the kindle. Had to relearn a bunch of html, and have realized that it would have been much easier had my book not contained so much poetry.
Guido Henkel's guide has been a ton of help. (http://guidohenkel.com/2010/12/take-pride-in-your-ebook-formatting/)
I took my Word document, used Word2CleanHTML, and then have been tinkering with the code in KompoZer, before using Calibre to convert it into a mobi file. I've been able to figure out most of the formatting issues I've run across, but am stumped with 2 problems:
1) Looking at the document on the kindle, my cover image doesn't work right. The top fifth is repeated, and the bottom fifth is missing. The original image is 500x814, and I have it attached via calibre's metadata page.
2) The left margin is larger than the right for my paragraphs. Currently my default paragraph code is
p
{
text-indent: 1.2em;
margin-bottom: 0.2em;
}
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!
Guido Henkel's guide has been a ton of help. (http://guidohenkel.com/2010/12/take-pride-in-your-ebook-formatting/)
I took my Word document, used Word2CleanHTML, and then have been tinkering with the code in KompoZer, before using Calibre to convert it into a mobi file. I've been able to figure out most of the formatting issues I've run across, but am stumped with 2 problems:
1) Looking at the document on the kindle, my cover image doesn't work right. The top fifth is repeated, and the bottom fifth is missing. The original image is 500x814, and I have it attached via calibre's metadata page.
2) The left margin is larger than the right for my paragraphs. Currently my default paragraph code is
p
{
text-indent: 1.2em;
margin-bottom: 0.2em;
}
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!