Ebooks come in approximately 4,312 formats, of which approximately 4,300 are considered obsolete by most people who deal with ebooks today.

This guide is meant to take you step-by-step through the creation of a complete Standard Ebook. While it might seem a little long, most of the text is a description of how to use various automated scripts. It can take just an hour or two for an experienced producer to produce a draft ebook for proofreading (depending on the complexity of the ebook, of course).

Our toolset is GNU/Linux-based, and producing an ebook from scratch currently requires working knowledge of the epub file format and of Unix-like systems like Mac or Linux.

Our toolset doesn’t yet work natively on Windows, but there are many ways to run Linux from within Windows, including one that is directly supported by Microsoft themselves.

Calibre is brilliant, but many of its features fly under the radar. Here are the best Calibre features to help you manage your ebook collection.

.Software Jailbreak for Kindle PW2, PW3(B), PW3W, KT2, KT3(B), KT3W, KV, and KOA

The JailBreak, while fairly unintrusive itself, opens the door to pretty much everything you'll find on this forum .

As for USBNetwork, besides bundling a couple of useful tools, it will grant you remote shell access to your Kindle, be it over USB or WiFi.

Abstract: The purpose of this page is to bring together, in a concise way, much of the information found in the Kindle Developer's Corner concerning the Kindle Touch (KT) And Kindle Paperwhite (PW), regarding topics such as jailbreaks, modifications, and how to develop for the device.

While the first method is easy to follow, you may wish to contact customer service to remove the ads for you. Reasons you may wish to use this method include 1) because you’d rather not try to do it yourself, or 2) you would like to see if they will turn off ads for you for free.

Some people have reported that customer service may occasionally choose to waive the fee for removing special offers as a “one time exception” for you.

This Calibre plugin allows you to manage your Kindle collections, and, on select devices, margins and fonts.

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Works on the Kindle DX, 2, 3, and 4 non-touch; and in tandem with ixtab's Collections Manager on JailBroken Kindle Touch, PaperWhite, PaperWhite 2, Basic, Voyage, PaperWhite 3, Oasis, Basic 2, Oasis 2, PaperWhite 4 & Basic 3 devices

Collections Manager offers a much more flexible way than the built-in one to manage Kindle Touch and Kindle PaperWhite collections.

Stop organizing your ebooks like they’re just a tired pile of documents and start organizing them in style with Calibre—an open source ebook organizer that supports metadata, cover flow, format conversion, and more.

Whenever I open an .epub file in Calibre e-book viewer, the text is full-justified. I want to set left-justification as a permanent preference for all .epub files. How can I do that?

I'm running the latest version of Windows 10 Home Edition 64-bit, and the latest version of Calibre (I think), 5.14.

Thanks for any help.

UPDATE: I submitted my question to the MobileRead forum's thread, Custom CSS Stylesheets for Calibre's Viewer, and received an answer from Kovid Goyal, himself (the creator of Calibre). The solution is to use a style sheet (as suggested by Christian__N, below) with this entry:

* { text-align: left !important; }

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51500

In the Ebook Viewer application, click on the Hammer [gear] icon (Preferences), then put the code in the "User stylesheet" edit box and click OK. Have an ebook open in the viewer for the full effect, before and after.

Send to Kindle for Google Chrome
Sending web content to Kindle has never been easier
Send news articles, blog posts and other web content to Kindle.
Send web content to Kindle in one step or preview before you send.
Select text from the web page and send it to Kindle.
Read anytime, everywhere on your Kindle devices and reading apps.
Choose to archive content in your Kindle Library, where you can re-download it conveniently at any time.
Send to Kindle for Chrome makes web articles easier to read – we send just the content you want and not the distractions.

Once you download and install, a Send to Kindle icon will appear on your Google Chrome browser.

You can download archived content from any Kindle device or free reading app for your iOS or Android device.

If your Kindle Paperwhite won’t turn on, a frozen screen is the most probable cause.

You can fix this yourself by following the steps below:

1. Press and Hold the power button for 40 seconds then release.
2. Press and Hold the power button again for 3-5 seconds to reboot the device.
3. The device should now boot up and display the Kindle logo. //

If you happen to leave your Kindle for any extended period, the device’s battery may dip below its operating voltage necessary to run.

Your Kindle will display an exclamation mark when the battery charge gets critical. If it goes beyond this, you get a completely blank screen and the Kindle Paperwhite will look dead. //

If the battery is completely dead, the Kindle will need to pre-charge the battery at a much slower rate, also known as “trickle charge”, so not to overheat or damage the battery. This can take up to an hour to get to a safe voltage level before switching to a normal charge rate.

The biggest change that the update introduces is how the Kindle software is actually displayed, with the top-mounted toolbar removed and a large search bar included in its place.

At the bottom of the UI, too, are now just two buttons, which include one for 'Home' and one for the user's digital reading 'Library'. There's also now a central icon that allows the reader to jump to their most recently read book and, in what will be music to many Kindle owner's ears, the quick-settings menu is now easily accessed as a new arrow has been placed on the UI that points to it – the days of randomly tapping around the top of the screen trying to find it are gone! All these changes have been made to make it easier and more streamlined to navigate on Kindles. //

The latest Amazon Kindle update is version 5.13.7,

The below table has each device, its release year, the generation it was a part of, the short name, and serial number prefixes to help identify it.

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.

Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade style manual, fully proofreads and corrects them, and then builds them to create a new edition that takes advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technology.

Standard Ebooks aren’t just a beautiful addition to your digital library—they’re a high quality standard to build your own ebooks on.

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EDGE / IOT / OPEN SOURCE
The Open Book Project: An eBook Reader You Can Build Yourself
2 Feb 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

An amateur hardware enthusiast wants to prove it’s possible for people to build their own ebook readers.

“As a society, we need an open source device for reading,” explains the project’s page on GitHub. “Books are among the most important documents of our culture, yet the most popular and widespread devices we have for reading — the Kobo, the Nook, the Kindle and even the iPad — are closed devices, operating as small moving parts in a set of giant closed platforms whose owners’ interests are not always aligned with readers’.”

“The Open Book aims to be a simple device that anyone with a soldering iron can build for themselves.”

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

HTML(HyperText Markup Lanuage) is the standard markup language to create web page while Mobi is a file format created by Mobipocket but now also adopted by Amazon Kindle Readers. You may need to convert HTML to Mobi when you want to read files saved from wabpage on your kindle devices just like reading other ebooks instead of reading them in the browser. Or you have written your own ebooks with HTML format and want to share them with your family and friends who own the popular kindle devices.

My wife let her Kindle Paper White's battery get so low that the screen froze. Last night she put it on charge and this morning it still had a frozen screen and it hadn't charged. Here's what you need to do if it happens to you. Fasten it to your computer. Your computer will not recognize it. Hard-boot the Kindle by holding the power button down for 20 seconds or more. Nothing appears to happen. Leave things as they are for an hour or so and it will then tell you that it is charging (with a never-seen-before screen). Again, your computer still won't recognize the fact that it's fastened to it. Leave things alone! Eventually, the Kindle will shut down properly, it will reboot, your computer will recognize it and it will start to charge normally. You don't need to "eject" it from your computer, just leave it alone and it will charge fully and then you can use it. When the battery gets SO low, it's a game of patience and I suspect the same is true of other stubborn frozen screen situations.

Reading your documents and web content on Kindle is now easier than ever. Use Send to Kindle applications to read on your Kindle devices and free reading apps on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android phone and tablet.