06-01-2024, 03:39 PM
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Kindle Previewer calls out error where there is none
The Run Quality Checks (beta) of the Kindle Previewer 3 gives me the following error for four instances:
"Your book has an external link that does not work." However in this page of source material for the book there are scores of deadlinks and I want then to remain so. Yet the previewer calls out only four of them. Can I safely ignore this error warning? I do not get any such warning with ACE nor Epub Check. Thanks, Tom |
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06-02-2024, 12:52 AM
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I've been using Sigil's URL Checker plugin for a while. It does a good job of identifying the bad links by type and will report more than one link in a file.
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06-02-2024, 01:23 AM
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Hi David,
I agree that the URL checker works well. And the Kindle Previewer works well too. But here is the problem: the author has a Sources page that in print goes on for three pages. There are probably 30+ https://... TEXT in there. Not one is a link. They are all text. So why does Kindle tell me there are 5 broken external links? None are formatted as links, only text. Can I just ignore this or do I have to do something? Tom |
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06-02-2024, 06:01 AM
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Don't use the Kindle Previewer?
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06-02-2024, 07:54 PM
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derangement">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derangement</a> There is a possibility that you have links elsewhere in the ePub. Perhaps a search for href on the other files might help? Otherwise, can you post just that file so we can take a look at it? I'd suggest opening the ePub in an archive utility (7-Zip for example) and extracting that file and then attaching it to a message here. |
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06-02-2024, 09:29 PM
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That quality check feature will examine book text looking for obvious URLs even if they are not actually links and will report those that are nonfunctional.
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06-02-2024, 10:00 PM
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I did a test epub with working links, broken links and things that looked like links. All but the working links were reported as errors.
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