Kindle crashing on Mac when attempting to open the download
spoonstein opened this issue · comments
When I download the file and attempt to open it in Kindle, it crashes Kindle. When I reopen Kindle, I see a new book along with the LWM book. If I attempt to open the LWM book, the same thing repeats. Happy to load a video of the behavior if need be.
I'm using Kindle of Mac version 1.3.
Reproduced this as well on Kindle for Mac 1.30.0 (59057). Same behavior.
- Open .mobi file with Kindle
- Kindle crashes
- Two books appear in library, one blank, one with the Wardley Maps book cover (image below)
- Attempting to open any copy of the book results in an additional crash, and an additional blank copy in the library.
I found this for asciidoctor from 2015 (asciidoctor/asciidoctor-epub3#26) but I'm not set up to dig further yet.
Maybe using the PDF is the right move here for now with Kindle?
I spent a few hours on this tonight.
Ran into an obstacle or two. Kindlegen is no longer provided by a gem, since Amazon pulled its distribution except as part of the official Kindle Previewer app. If you download that and add the binary to your path /Applications/Kindle Previewer 3.app/Contents/lib/fc/bin/ that will get you past that particular hiccup.
However, I was unable to get past the Kindle app itself crashing. Even if I replace everything with a simple "hello world" style asciidoc, the same crash happens with the generated mobi file. Fun! Gonna shelve my work on this for now.
Edit: one parting note... attempting to open the mobi in Kindle Previewer results in this error message: Kindle Previewer does not support this file, which has either been created using an older version of KindleGen or a third party application. We recommend using EPUB or DOCX format directly for previewing and publishing your book on Kindle. Perhaps Amazon is acting deliberately here.