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Kindlegen plugin for Sigil
[Plugin] KindleGen - Simple KindleGen wrapper
Updated: August 8, 2023 Current Version: "0.6.9" This plugin is a very simple kindlegen wrapper for converting epubs to mobi files with kindlegen. (If you're a macOS user or using Sigil 0.9.8 or higher, please download KindleGenQt_v0.6.9.zip, otherwise download KindleGen_v0.5.5.zip.) Disclaimer: Even though it's unlikely that the plugin will somehow corrupt the epub that you're working on or crash Sigil, you might want to save your ePub in Sigil before running this plugin. Credits: This plugin uses code originally written by KevinH, nickredding and other KindleUnpack developers. It also uses jhowell's Calibre KFX Output plugin. System requirements This plugin requires the Kindlegen binary or Kindle Previewer, which comes with KindleGen. If you uncheck the Use Bundled Python option, you'll also need to install Python, bs4, lxml and Pillow. Linux users will need to download the kindlegen binary from the Internet Archive and unzip it to a /bin folder. Installation 1. Select Manage Plugins from the Plugins menu. Select Use Bundled Python to use the bundled interpreter. If you haven't updated to Sigil 0.9.0 (or higher) click one of the Auto buttons to detect the path or Set to manually select the Python interpreter path. You also might need to install bs4, Pillow and lxml. 2. Click Add Plugin and select KindleGen_v0.6.8.zip. This will install the kindlegen plugin, which you can select via Plugins > Output > KindleGenQt. If you want to generate KFX files, you'll also need to install Kindle Previewer and jhowell's Calibre KFX Output plugin. Since the Calibre KFX Output plugin doesn't support Linux, you can't generate KFX files with the Linux version of Sigil. When you run the plugin for the first time, you'll need to select the kindlegen location, unless you have installed Kindle Previewer in the default folder. Select either kindlegen.exe (Windows) or kindlegen (macOS, Linux). Settings By default, the plugin will generate .mobi files using the same parameters as Kindle Previewer (master mobi file, no compression, attached source files). There are two groups of settings: 1. KindleGen settings that are passed on to the KindleGen binary and allow you to:
The plugin will also check for the presence of the following recommended guide/landmarks/metadata items:
Advanced Settings * According to the Kindle Publishing Guidelines, the SRL has been deprecated. (If you don't use the SRL, edit KindleGen.json and change "check_srl": true to "check_srl": false.) License: GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3) Last edited by Doitsu; 08-05-2023 at 02:22 AM. Reason: Updated for Qt 6.5.2 and Python 3.11.3 |
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Hi Doitsu,
Already 19 downloads .... Great Work. Thank you! KevinH |
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I am trying this out on my linux mint 17.1 rebecca x64 system, but unfortunately am getting errors:
================================================== == Status: success Running KindleGen ... please wait ************************************************** *********** Amazon kindlegen(Linux) V2.9 build 1028-0897292 A command line e-book compiler Copyright Amazon.com and its Affiliates 2014 ************************************************** *********** Info:I9006 ![]() Info:I9014 ![]() Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Title ""Sweet Young Things"" Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc ![]() Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Creator "Kristine Kathryn Rusch" Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Contributor "calibre (1.25.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com]" Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Source "Free Fiction Monday 2014/11/17" Info(prcgen):I1052: Kindle support cover images but does not support cover HTML. Hence using the cover image specified and suppressing cover HTML in content. URL: /OEBPS/Text/cover.xhtml Info(prcgen):I1002: Parsing files 0000001 Info(prcgen):I1003: Parsing file URL: part0000_split_002.html Info(cssparser):I10004: @rules other than @import, @charset and @font-face are not supported. Info(prcgen):I1015: Building PRC file Info(prcgen):I1006: Resolving hyperlinks Info(prcgen):I1010: Writing hyperlinks Info(prcgen):I1049: Building table of content URL: /OEBPS/toc.ncx Error(prcgen):E24010: Hyperlink not resolved in toc (One possible reason can be that the link points to a tag with style display:none):/OEBPS/Text/titlepage.xhtml# Error(prcgen):E24001: The table of content could not be built. Info(prcgen):I1016: Building enhanced PRC file Info(prcgen):I1007: Resolving mediaidlinks Info(prcgen):I1011: Writing mediaidlinks Info(prcgen):I1009: Resolving guide items Info(prcgen):I1038: MOBI file could not be generated because of errors! Kindlegen failed. Please click OK to close the Plugin Runner window. ================================================== == What do I need to do to get this working? Dave |
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The error seems pretty clear; there's an invalid hyperlink in the TOC.
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I ran the validator and get the following errors: OEBPS/Text/titlepage.xhtml N/A This OPS document is reachable but not present in the OPF <spine>. "Reachable" means that a reference of some kind that points to this resource exists in the epub. OEBPS/Text/titlepage.xhtml N/A This resource is reachable but not present in the OPF <manifest>. "Reachable" means that a reference of some kind that points to this resource exists in the epub. OEBPS/toc.ncx 17 This <content> element's "src" attribute value is "Text/titlepage.xhtml", but that file does not exist. I don't see a way to remove the TOC or to modify the OPF anywhere. I was able to use ebook-convert from calibre to create a .mobi from this file, so I am surprised that kindlegen has problems with it. Dave |
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All those errors seem to be saying the same thing: that you're referencing a file called "titlepage.xhtml", but the file doesn't exist.
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calibre is a better piece of software than kindlegen -- and you're surprised to hear that?
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Regenerate your Toc.ncx (semantic ToC) -- or manually edit it -- to get rid of the reference to that nonexistent file...
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The .mobi kindlegen made is substantially larger than the one ebook-convert made, over twice the size. Perhaps I need to tweak the kindlegen.ini settings to deal with this. I have both a K3 WiFi and a KT2, so I need a file that both can read, so I would appreciate some pointers. Dave |
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kindlegen is creating a dual-MOBI.
I assume you mean it is bigger than a dual-MOBI that calibre creates. (Rather than being bigger than a standalone AZW3 which is just duh. ![]() Try using the undocumented Code:
-dont_append_source ![]() For kindlegen.ini that would be the "donotaddsource = False True" mentioned in the OP. ... Also consider creating the standalone AZW3 and MOBI, and sideloading each one as and when needed. Unless you intend to use Amazon PDOCs of course. Last edited by eschwartz; 11-05-2015 at 04:07 PM. |
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On a related topic, is there a way to improve the file name created? I left the mobi_file setting blank, so it used the title as a starting point. As this was a short story, the title was in double-quotes which were translated to underscores. The embedded blanks in the title were kept in the file name. My preference in this matter is to elide the double-quotes and translate the embedded spaces to underscores in the file name. It would be nice if this could be automated by the plug-in. I also normally convert embedded apostrophes to hyphens in the file name. I imagine a more general translate table might be needed for foreign languages titles to file names. At this point I will simply rename the files manually, but it would be nice to automate it. Dave Last edited by dhdurgee; 11-05-2015 at 04:32 PM. Reason: fix typo |
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I don't know, doesn't sound like it.
I usually use calibre's metadata template language for that. In calibre. ![]() |
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You may want to make sure that all books that you want to convert with KindleGen pass ePubCheck and/or FlightCrew, because books that fail validation usually also fail KindleGen. Also note that azw3 and mobi7 files generated by this plugin can't be used for KDP uploads. If you want to convert multiple epubs you're better off using Calibre. Quote:
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title = re.sub('[/|\?|<|>|\\\\|:|\*|\||"|\^]+', '_', dc_title.group(1)) |
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# replace unwanted characters in book title title = re.sub('[/|\?|<|>|\\\\|:|\*|\||"|\^|\'|\s]+', '_', dc_title.group(1)) title = title.strip("_") There might even be a few more unwanted characters that ought to be added to the replacement list that could cause problems in a file name. I will see if I run into any and add them as I encounter them. The white space is a preference of mine to avoid the need of quoting filenames or using escape codes while entering file names. I find the underscores an acceptable replacement avoiding that problem. Dave |
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