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Kindle Once Again - this time for Walk, Hike, Saunter

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 Last time I did this was Dec 2017. At the moment, memory of how to do it is pretty foggy, but luckily I have my earlier blog posts on this to refresh my memory so printing them out to review. (look for Kindle label in this blog to find).  This book is a little easier than the others - text and inline photos, a table of contents, but no index. Susan has promised it will be out in two and a half weeks, so will try to do that. My immediate issue is that I remember that I have to make some changes to the Indesign file before putting out the epub file that I will update for Kindle, but don't remember quite what they were. Pausing to read my prior posts, and to review Kindle code for Healing Miles . From my 2012 notes I saw that to get reliable chapter breaks, each chapter had to be a separate xhtml file. The default of Indesign is to put out one big xhtml file, but it will break on a style, so I need to be sure the current Indesign document (for Walk, Hike, Saunter ) has an appro...

My alerts to blogs of interest have vanished, and I miss them

I used to have all the blogs I followed in Google Reader, and a notice from it was something I looked forward to. However, as in many things Google, they decided in their infinite wisdom to drop that product. I dutifully looked for another product and choose Feedly. That worked, I think for months, maybe a year or so, but recently I realized that I was no longer hearing about Moratinos, or from the animal camera guy, or from winter pilgrim, etc..... So, I have just taken all those "blogs I follow" links from my own blog, and put them into Google Alerts. We shall see if that works. Some people have vanished, some haven't posted for a year or two, I haven't for almost a year. Hoping something comes in from the ether. *** update 6/4/2020 *** nothing came in from google alerts. Looking for: acatholicwomansplace.blogspot.com/ solitary-walker.blogspot.com/ amawalker.blogspot.com/ gambolinman.blogspot.com/ fixingyourfeet.com/blog/ calipidde...