Answers.Body: <p>Several Kindle devices support enhanced typesetting, so you should expect the body text of ebooks to include automatic hyphenation. </p>
  
  <p>When I format books, I don't do anything special about hyphenation, except that I disable hyphenation for chapter and subchapter titles. </p>
  
  <p>Hyphenation depends more on which device you are using than the ebook itself.  </p>
  
  <p>With regard to spacing, I have to wonder where your source material is coming from. Did you create it in MS word, or are you converting it from a MS Word (which throws in a lot of random HTML code and styles)? </p>
  
  <p>With regard to converting from epub to mobi, I would use Kindle previewer instead of calibre. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1003018611" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1003018611</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: "I disable hyphenation for chapter and subchapter titles." Can you tell me how you do that? Thanks
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Body: <p>I'm trying to create an ebook for sale on Amazon. I have Calibre and can sort out an epub version with automatic hyphenation, but when I convert to mobi it won't echo this (and I really want automatic hyphenation because I hate huge spaces). The answer, I'm gathering, is to convert to azw3, which does support automatic hyphenation. The problem I'm having now, though, is that my pc isn't reading the azw3 file and so I can't send and check it on my Amazon Fire. Any suggestions?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Maybe change question title to more accurately reflect what your question is?
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Comments.Text: Thanks for the answers, that's great. I did it originally in word, but then I handed it to an "expert" on fiverr to finish it off, but then they said there was only so much they could do and couldn't sort out hyphenation.
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Title: Attempting to create an ebook for sale on kindle
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ThreadText: # Attempting to create an ebook for sale on kindle
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-09-21)
  
  I'm trying to create an ebook for sale on Amazon. I have Calibre and can sort out an epub version with automatic hyphenation, but when I convert to mobi it won't echo this (and I really want automatic hyphenation because I hate huge spaces). The answer, I'm gathering, is to convert to azw3, which does support automatic hyphenation. The problem I'm having now, though, is that my pc isn't reading the azw3 file and so I can't send and check it on my Amazon Fire. Any suggestions?
  
  **Tags:** kindle, epub, mobi, azw
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Maybe change question title to more accurately reflect what your question is?  
  > **username_0**: Thanks for the answers, that's great. I did it originally in word, but then I handed it to an "expert" on fiverr to finish it off, but then they said there was only so much they could do and couldn't sort out hyphenation.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-09-23. Score: 0
  
  Several Kindle devices support enhanced typesetting, so you should expect the body text of ebooks to include automatic hyphenation.
  
  When I format books, I don't do anything special about hyphenation, except that I disable hyphenation for chapter and subchapter titles.
  
  Hyphenation depends more on which device you are using than the ebook itself.
  
  With regard to spacing, I have to wonder where your source material is coming from. Did you create it in MS word, or are you converting it from a MS Word (which throws in a lot of random HTML code and styles)?
  
  With regard to converting from epub to mobi, I would use Kindle previewer instead of calibre. <https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1003018611>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: "I disable hyphenation for chapter and subchapter titles." Can you tell me how you do that? Thanks  
  
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