Kindle Formatting Tutorial: How to Fix Common KDP Interior Problems

About this video

Answering a viewer whose EPUB looked fine on tablet view but broken on Kindle view, Dale shares three formatting rules from publishing image- and table-heavy fitness books through auto-formatting tools such as KDP, Smashwords, Pronoun and Draft2Digital. First, keep images below about five inches wide by six inches tall — a general rule he says has served him well across platforms. Second, do not build native tables: most auto-formatters mangle them into a jumbled mess, so create the table elsewhere, take a snapshot, and insert it as a PNG or JPEG image sized into the book; he says he has forced tables into KDP books but it was not worth the time and heartache compared with hiring help or using images. Third, mark chapter titles as Heading 1 or Heading 2, because auto-formatters recognise those styles and generate the table of contents from them automatically. He points viewers to a fuller document-formatting tutorial originally made for Pronoun that also works for Draft2Digital and Smashwords, and invites further EPUB and file-format questions in the comments.

Key takeaways

• Keep interior images under roughly 5" × 6" for reliable ebook rendering
• Never use native tables in auto-formatters — screenshot them into PNG/JPEG images
• Use Heading 1/2 styles for chapters so the TOC builds automatically
• Tablet view looking fine does not guarantee Kindle view is fine — test both

Episode details: published October 8, 2017 · 3:49 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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