In the list of projects, there’s already a copy of the Calibre Quick Start Guide. Here’s the start-up screen when you launch Calibre. That should pull the cover from inside the file if it was embedded in the metadata. If you used Amazon Send to Kindle and the book cover in your Kindle library is generic, try opening the book. There are a multitude of (sometimes confusing) conversion options in Calibre, but because we’ve defined all the rules in our CSS, we can safely ignore the vast majority of them. If your cover is embedded, it should be displayed on all Kindle apps and devices. In Behaviour, change the Preferred Output Format to MOBI.Even on a desktop monitor, there’s often not enough room for all the buttons to display at once In Look and Feel, change the Icon Size to small.The Preferences button is on the top toolbar, but it may be hidden if you have a small screen and you’ll have to click the little arrow on the right to find it: Once you’ve downloaded and installed the program, there are two changes to the Preferences I would recommend.

The author seems to update the software quite regularly, so forgive me if I’m a version or two behind. Calibre is available for all platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux) this tutorial is based on the PC version, but it shouldn’t look too different in other versions. While I urge you to explore all these, I’m just going to concentrate on HTML to Kindle format conversion. Calibre is a popular, free eBook utility and offers a sometimes bewildering array of features and options, including eBook synchronisation, downloading web content and library management.

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