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Wow, huge bummer. This is how I generated and edited my Kindle book... not sure what to do now.
by rriepe 6y ago
Wow, huge bummer. This is how I generated and edited my Kindle book... not sure what to do now.
- toyg 6y agoGenerate ePub and convert using something like Calibre's ebook-convert? At the end of the day, isn't an ebook basically a fancy zip with some markup inside...?
- liability 6y ago> At the end of the day, isn't an ebook basically a fancy zip with some markup inside...? That's what epubs are, plain old zip files with some xhtml, CSS, etc. You can unzip them using standard utilities. Mobi files aren't zips, but the premise is roughly the same and conversion between the two is usually seamless.
- Turing_Machine 6y agoIt's almost, but not quite "plain". You have to make sure that the mimetype file is the very first file in the zip, and that the mimetype file is uncompressed. Otherwise the epub will fail validation and will not work on many readers. So yeah, you can unzip them with any standard zip utility, but zipping them back up requires some care.
- vetinari 6y agoIf you have your copy of kindlegen, it will continue to work - it is a 32-bit statically linked binary, so as long as your kernel supports 32-bit processes and 32-bit ELF files, you are good to go. That it is available for download changes nothing; it has not been updated for years anyway. The mac version was in worse shape, it was also 32-bit, so it didn't run on Catalina at all.
- rriepe 6y agoIronically I've just made a Mac-to-Linux workflow change. I can probably still figure something out with another machine and Windows. Thanks for the tip though.