Now many people on this blog and elsewhere say that you can still not produce a professional Kindle book without getting into the code. Being forced to hand-code Kindle books has led to some horribly designed books. The good news is that coding is no longer requiredįor most of us, coding is beyond our interest or capabilities.
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In book designer terminology, CSS is a set of paragraph and character styles which is attached to a Website (or Web page) to tell a browser how to format the copy on that site or page. With CSS careful coders could construct rules for formatting the copy within a Website.
Gag!īut the world of Web design was radically changed a few years back with Cascading Style Sheets. After all, both of these formats are basically simple, very long, single-column Web pages. Of course, for book designers, even the ePUB is very limited. This is one of the reasons that ePUB gained so much prominence. It’s not too bad for novels, but for non-fiction and complex discussions of specific procedures it was painful. One of the largest problems for both the reader and the book designer when dealing with Kindle books has been the extremely limited typography available in the original Kindles and the mobi format in general. David has been working with the new Kindle Fire and KF8 software and I asked him to give us an idea of what this combination can do, and whether it’s going to change our ebooks for the better. KF8 offers typography as good or better than ePUBīy David Bergsland ( a self-published author, book designer and indie type designer last appeared on the blog in August, 2011 when he wrote Authors: Why You Should be Writing in Adobe InDesign.Excellent typography can be directly exported from InDesign as a Kindle book.
It always comes back to paragraph styles.The good news is that coding is no longer required.
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