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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...
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Just Discovered Walk Oakland Map & Guide

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Stumbled across this while searching for more info on some of the Oakland neighborhoods that I walk through. Its really cool - shows the public stairways and paths as well as the streets. It also color codes the streets to show degree of steepness. 4th edition came out in Sept 2009. It is published by the Oakland Department of Public Works and is widely available in Oakland  https://www.oaklandpw.com/Page129.aspx  including the bicycle store and bookstores in Montclair village in my area. I suggest buying it locally, but if you are keyboard bound, the earlier edition is in Amazon  Walk Oakland! Map & Guide . I love that this map is available, but I have learned that some of the paths and stairs are what once was, and have fallen into disrepair. I was walking down one street that I have walked many times. The map said there was a stairway cutting from this street to the one below. I didn't see anything, but asked a couple of young women who were walking down the stre...
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