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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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Advice on hiking with a backpack in the rain

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I try not to let wind and rain stop me from hiking. If I am prepared, it is actually sort of fun. The plants are dripping with water droplets. Rainwater paths give an education in delta formation, in miniaturized fashion. Some creatures appear only in the rain. I've been doing some local training hikes during rainy conditions, some days raining when I start, some rain starts later. I am reminded by nature, once again I might add, that it is best to put on rain pants before it starts to rain. With no shelter, it gets a little tricky getting stuff out of the pack and still keeping the pack and contents dry. In my case, I have a Packa which is a rain poncho with sleeves or a rain jacket with a hump for the pack, whichever you want to call it. It keeps the pack quite dry, but to get in the pack I've got to take it off and expose myself to the elements. For now I have a Patagonia Guide Jacket which is water resistant and a warm layer in the outer mesh pocket, and I grab...
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