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I don't personally recommend using Kindle Create for print books unless you plan on distributing exclusively through Amazon. The reason why is because while Kindle Create can produce a file that will work for both print books and ebooks, it will not generate a PDF for your print book. This means you cannot use the file setup for any other distributor. Like I said, if you're only planning on selling through Amazon, that's not a problem. And the KPF file that it creates will work for both ebooks and print books. When you upload your file for the print version, Amazon automatically reformats the book interior to fit the trim size you select. You're limited on what you can do with print books with Kindle Create, and I higly recommend you use a program like Scribus to do the inteiror layout of your print book. Not only does it give you the option to produce a higher quality book interior, you will be able to distribute your book to other POD companies.

Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate the mention of Latex. I'll have to check it out and maybe do a review of it.

Bonjour, je ne parle pas français, donc j'utilise un traducteur pour répondre. J'espère que c'est clair. Kindle Create est un outil de mise en forme et vous n'avez pas besoin de faire de mise en forme dans Word. En fait, il est préférable de ne pas avoir de mise en forme dans Word lorsque vous importez. Tout ce que vous avez à faire, c'est d'importer votre document et d'utiliser Kindle Create pour formater votre livre comme vous le souhaitez.

There are better tools out there, but there are few better FREE tools. I'm glad you found the video useful.

I'm glad the video helped you. I'm planning on redoing them as they are not up to the quality I'd like. I made them for an audience of one and never expected them to get thousands of views! To your question, yes, there is a way, and it's fairly easy. You have an inside and outside margin which is how you keep the book from being "eaten by the book saddle." You'll want your inside margin (closest to the book saddle) to be 0.625 inches (15.875 mm) and your outside margin to be .25 inches (6.35 mm). This is pretty standard, but it can change depending on your trim size, but not by much. You can take your ruler tool in Scribus and set it to these parameters and turn on the snap to guides feature in Scribus, which will allow you to resize your text containers and have them snap to the guides. Once you do that, select a handful on the right side (I believe you can select them by holding down CTRL and left clicking on them) and then once you've selected the ones you want, grab the edge by the inside margin and resize to your new margin. Hope this helps. If not, let me know.

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do. Are you talking about a standard outline, A, b, 1, i scenario? There is a way to create hyperlinks in KC, but you may want to create your work in a stand alone program like Scribus, and then use Kindle Create to make a print replica. The video covers how to create a free flow book like a novel, but for your purposes you'd want to use the option in the beginning to create a print replica, which takes an existing PDF and turns it into an interactive ebook. You'd have to create the hyperlinks in the PDF, which is possible, though not covered in my Scribus videos, and then when creating the Print Replica, choose the option to preserve the hyperlinks. Hope this helps. I am working on producing more videos now that I see that there is a need for this information. I've just finished with a convention tour, and was taking a break for the holidays, with the plan of starting the videos in the new year. If you have ideas of what you'd like to see videos on, you can let me know here, or over at my website: www.sommerstone.com/contact

Thanks for the feedback. To be honest, these videos were only ever intended for an audience of one. I had no idea they'd get so many views. If I had, I definitely would have done a better job. Frankly, it's a little embarrassing. I'm planning on doing more, and they'll be a higher quality.

I'm very sorry for the late reply. These videos were only ever intended for an audience of one, as a review of things discussed on the phone as I helped a friend format her book. That they've been viewed as many times as they have is something I neither expected nor planned for. To answer your question, which you may have already done, you can use Amazon's eBook viewer, which will open both KPF files (books made with Kindle Create) and epub files. You can find the Kindle Previewer here: kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G202131170

@@Author-JDGOFF Thanks👍, already done

Thank you. It's not great. I made it for an audience of one, and I want to redo it so that it's better and easier to follow. Scribus is a very powerful program, but it's open source, which means buggy and hard to learn. Is there anything in particular you'd like to know more about in the program? I'm thinking of doing a tutorial on cover design for print books using Scribus. What do you think?

@@Author-JDGOFF I had some issues with master pages with the 1.4.8 release version. I downloaded the 1.5.8 and it fixed my problem. I think I would like to know if I should use Auto generate text boxes or not. As far a cover pages, I think some folks would like it. I use photoshop for mine. If you were planning on re-doing the video. maybe adding a bleed demo or discussing it more. I dunno. I still appreciate your efforts so much.

@@tommyservo9660 I definitely want to redo the video. It's not very good, and I never thought it would get thousands of views. It was only ever intended for an audience of one, as a summary of numerous phone calls and sessions helping her format her book. It definitely needs to be redone, and I will do a more through overview of it's functions and features.

@@tommyservo9660 Sorry for the late reply. I've been at conventions most of the year. To answer your question, I would enable auto generate text boxes. It has caused me some weird issues where text boxes are generated without an actual page, so I have to go delete them, but I find it easier to do that then to create them manually and snap them to the margins. As an aside, I now use Atticus (not sponsored) to create my content because it saves me time. It's not as good as Scribus, but it's awfully close, and as an independent publisher, it saves me a lot of time. It's not cheap, and I'm focusing these videos on free or inexpensive tools, but if you have it in your budget, you might want to check it out. I'll provide a link below. I know that money can be tight, and as authors we often spend a lot of time in order to save money, but that takes time away from writing. Sometimes you have to spend money to save time, and each author has to decide where to invest their time and money. For me, Atticus was worth the $147 because it saved me a lot of time, and while it's not as good an end result as what I can get with Scribus, it's close enough that the time it saves me makes it worth the cost and the very small difference in the quality of the final output. www.atticus.io

Page numbers are not relevant in an ebook. Ebooks are typically reflowable, meaning the text reflows depending on the reading device and user preferences. As such, page numbers do not apply. When creating a book for print, which Kindle Create does allow, the page number is determined by several factors. The size of the font, the size of the print book (6x9 will have fewer page numbers than a 5X8 book). the KPF (Kindle Print File) that is generted by Kindle Create is used by Amazon to create both the eBook and the print book. You can decide where you want the page numbers to appear in your book by using the PRINT SETTINGS in the upper right menu bar. This gives you eight options: • Bottom right & bottom left with author name and title on the top of the page on the left and right • Bottom center with author name and title centered on the top of the page • Bottom center with author name and title on the left and right • Bottom centered with nothing in the header (no author or title) • Top right and left with author and book title also on the left and right • Top right and left with the book title and chapter title also on the left and right • Top right and left with book & chapter tilte centered. • Top right and right with author name and book title centered These are the only options available in KIndle Create for numbering pages in your book, and the pagination will be done automatically by the software. If you are looking for something with more versitality for print copies, I recommend Scribus, a free open source Desk Top Publishing program, or Affinity, an inexpensive DTP program that will allow you to design every aspect of your print book. Both are more difficult to master (though I have videos for Scribus posted to help), but they provide absolute control over how your print book will look. They do not create ebook files. If you're interested, and have the budget for it, I highly recommend Atticus, which provides a high level of control over both the design of your eBooks and your print books. It also generates files for both, but it is more expnesive at $150. Both Draft2Digital and Reedsy do have online editors that will create print books and ebooks, but you are limited to their templates. I've included links to everything below. RECOMENDED: www.atticus.io/ Draft2Digital: draft2digital.com/ Reedsy: reedsy.com/ Desk Top Publishing Scribus (Free) www.scribus.net/ Affinity ( $69.99 with a fee 30 day trial) affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/

I'm glad you found the video helpful. The response and view, frankly, have surprised me. I only ever intended these videos for an audience of one, a friend I was helping to publish an anthology of her short stories because her publisher doesn't do anthologies. I never anticipated they'd receive the attention they have. To answer your question, about importing additional chapters into Kindle Create, the only way is to add a chapter page and then copy and paste from Word. I do not actually recommend using Kindle Create for formatting your books. As I mentioned, I made this video for an audience of one, and did it on Kindle Create because that's the program she was using. I don't recommend it as a first choice for a number of reasons. 1. While it is free and the newest version allows for the creation of epub files, it is still very much proprietary and can only create print books for Amazon. 2. It is hard to use and there is the extra work you mentioned. 3. The features for design and layout are limited. I much prefer Atticus, a program developed by the folks over at Kindlepreneur.com . It is a much easier program to use, allows for easy import of additional chapters, is highly configurable when it comes to the layout and design of both your ebooks and print books, for which it produces files (epub and pdf). It costs about $150 US, but I've found it worth the money as it saves me a lot of time. Unlike Kindle Create, you can write your book in it. I don't, but the option is there. It's not a perfect program, but it is impressive. Another alternative is Scrivener, for which I am currently creating a tutorial video. It is far more robust and produces both print and epub files for upload, as well as offering a variety of organizational tools for developing books, screenplays, et al.

Thank you. I'm glad you found it useful.

Thanks. I'm actually working on new video for the latest version of Kindle Create that came out in November. They've added a couple of really nice features, and I wanted to do a more thorough breakdown of the program. I've outlined it, now I just need to record it and edit the content. I'm hoping this will help a lot of people.

I'm planning on doing a more in-depth video in the next week or so, with topics and time stamps for easier navigation. I'll address indents there. In the meantime, you can create indents by going to the format tab, making sure you paragraph is set to "body text". Toward the bottom on the right side, you'll see a section for indents. Expand that and chose the option for first line indent. I don't believe I went over indents, but here's the time stamp where I dropped a note in showing their location. ua-cam.com/video/_lxZp1qYq6M/v-deo.html

I'll have to do some research on that when I redo the video. If you have anything else you'd like to see or have questions on let me know in the comments.

You're very welcome!

The audio levels are set within the normal parameters, but your browser may be set with a lower volume or the volume in the player may have been set too low. No one else has had this issue. Try changing the volume setting in the player. Let me know if that doesn't resolve the issue.

Thanks. The others aren't as good as they're rushed and I didn't expect so many views. I made these videos for a friend who needed help. I am planning on redoing the other videos so that they're better. I'm glad you found it helpful.

I have. While the changes to other Elements, like chapter title, do propagate across the book, you cannot apply a style to body text (aside from font and a few other minor things) to change. There are 9 elements (3 Page Elements, to adjust how pages appear, and 6 Standard Elements, to adjust specific things like quotes within the text). There is no element for body text, though you can apply some limited styles. The reason for this is because Kindle readers and apps allow the reader to adjust the spacing between lines of text on their device, as well as other things, to make the text easier to read on their device. Hope this helps answer your question

Hi MTM. I'm not sure I understand your question. Could you clarify?

Excellent point. Thanks for sharing.

Hey Fred. First I'm really sorry for the late response. I never anticipated the views these videos would get. Will you let me know if you're still having this issue, and I'll see if I can help you.

Thanks. I'm good. @@Author-JDGOFF

Glad it was helpful!

You're very welcome! I'm glad you found it useful. I'm going to put together some others when I have time (after August), so check back then.

I do hyphenate, there just wasn't any need to in the section I was working on. This video is raw, very raw, and I never expected it to get the traction it has. It was meant for an audience of one, the individual with whom I'd had several phone calls and zoom meetings, and spent hours helping format their book for self publication. If I'd known it would get as many views as it has I'd have put more time into it and made it more comprehensive.

I've found to use "edit" then "styles" menu and was able to make/save changes. Cheers

The thing to remember that Scribus is NOT a word processor, and it works differently. You want to establish styles and apply them. If there is no style set, the default style will apply. In a word processor, when you change fonts and formats, code and formatting symbols are embedded within the text, but they're hidden to provide a WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) look. Scribus does not embed any code in the text itself, but configures the layout using styles that apply to segments of the text.

Thanks for making me aware. I've got it fixed now.

I'm glad it was helpful. I'm going to go over the Scribus videos again and redo them as they're not that good.

I'm sorry this has taken so long to reply to. I basically made the videos for a friend who has been traditionally published for years but wants to do some self published stuff on her own. I didn't expect anyone else to see them, so I haven't really paid a lot of attention to them, but let's go over it. I'm going to probably redo these videos to make them more accessible, breaking them up into smaller segments. At any rate, to answer your question, you want to go into the FILE menu at the top, and then down to DOCUMENT SETUP. Once there, locate SECTIONS on the left hand side and click on it. You'll see a row of different attributes labeled; Name, Shown, Reversed, From, To, Style, Start, Field Width, Fill Character. The only one you care about is the START column. This is where you'll put the actual starting page of your book, after all the front matter. In my case, it's page 9 so I enter 9. You would enter 3 since that's where your chapters begin. Hit okay, and you're table of contents will now show the third page in as page 1. Hope this helps, and again, sorry. I wasn't really expecting anyone other than my friend to see these videos, but now that there appears to be a demand for them, I'll try to make some more, and better breakdowns.

Glad it was helpful!

Yes, however LibreOffice is a word processor with some limited Desktop Publishing capability. You will not be able to get as professional a product using LibreOffice as you will with Scribus, which allows for kerning (adjusting the spacing between and even the width of letters) that create a much cleaner layout.