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While I can't speak about the native Amazon files, I know that the kindlegen use html under the hood. It outputs (at least the versions I've used) a mobi file,
by emeraldd 14y ago
While I can't speak about the native Amazon files, I know that the kindlegen use html under the hood. It outputs (at least the versions I've used) a mobi file, which is just a zip container with some metadata. Inside, you'll find html files. I'm reasonably certain that the native Amazon stuff is just another layer ontop of that.
- fusiongyro 14y agoPerhaps the difficulties Tim is talking about are really renderer shortcomings and not the format itself, which I had assumed was a lot more restrictive than HTML.
- emn13 14y agoThe problem (mostly) isn't the renderer, it's the content. It does actually need to be a reasonably reflowable html page, as opposed to too many manual line breaks, excessively indented blocks, etc. For code, that's just not easy.
- bunderbunder 14y agoI wonder if the problem is specific to whatever algorithm Amazon is using. I've never tried to read a technical book on a Kindle, but on both my Nook and my iPad ePub files work far better than PDFs. Lines in code samples do have to get wrapped fairly often on the Nook, but it's done in a sensible manner and there's a nice text editor style arrow icon to indicate which lines were wrapped.