Look into Calibre for converting EPUB to MOBI

[yihui]

Calibre is free and open-source: https://calibre-ebook.com/

Because Amazon's kindlegen has some restrictions https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000599251 It seems we are not allowed to use kindlegen on a server:

You may make one copy of the Software for back-up purposes. You may not use the Software over a network. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by Amazon.

[muschellij2]

Kindlegen no longer available: https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211, so may want to use bookdown::calibre as the recommendation at https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/e-books.html#mobi and discuss kindlegen was an option

[cderv]

Thanks for the info @muschellij2. I opened another issue to track this.

[yihui]

You are right. I was aware of that. Someone reported it by email to me a while ago but I haven't updated the book or the kindlegen() function yet. Thank you!

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