So when I get an epub book I'd like to read, I need to convert that book before I can load it on my Kindle.įor this (and many other ebook related tasks), I use the free tool Calibre. Instead, Kindle supports the Mobipocket format and its Kindle-specific AZW successors.

Important: I included a reference to an embedded font - which you must delete (I think epubcheck won't validate with a bad font reference).I like reading books on my Kindle, but one of the drawbacks of the Kindle platform is that it doesn't support the epub book format. There's no footnotes, boxes or references, but my ebook did have a bibliography. The cool stuff about my css is my list of breakpoints (which take into account different devices but don't use any kindle-specific media queries). (Also I figured out some Kindle-friendly image css which I detailed here). Also, I did some hocus pocus to make images into chapter titles, so you can ignore the any css classes marked 'image-replace-title' or p.pseudo-title. I used some default values from a docbook style sheet at the top which would not be relevant to anyone. Some notes about my file: Last update was April 20 as I said on the top. I recently published a title Soldier Boys by Jack Matthews on smashwords which has some up-to-date templates. Another option is to download any recent Project Gutenberg title. That means you can view code from Oreilly Books or Smashwords. You can open and inspect css any epub file which is not protected from DRM. Some use a separate kindle css file, while others just combine everything into one generic file. Most publishers use the epub file as input to generate a kindle file, so there are usually conditional Kindle adjustments to make. Here are some other things to think about: I haven't looked at them yet (I just found them when I started to answer your question), but they should be good guides - especially because the code epub3 compliant. His company has produced some epub3 files which you can download for free. He wrote boilerplate css which you can view/download here: Paul Salvette wrote an ebook formatting guide which I recommend.

Calibre kindle css theme