Creating a mobi file for kindle

[devinganger]

@kewms

Scrivener 3 will automatically detect Kindle Previewer and use it if installed. I don’t remember at what point that function was added, though.

According to your previous posts, Scrivener 3.1.5 for Mac and later. I did not think the auto-detection was in Scrivener 3 for Windows yet – I’ve always had to manually configure it.

Here’s my post back from RC11:

Trouble exporting to MOBI

When you follow the link in Scrivener to the Amazon KindleGen page, that will redirect you to the download page for Kindle Previewer. Although KindleGen is no longer a separate download, there is an updated version of it bundled deep in Kindle Previewer. On my machine, the directory for it was: C:\Users\devin\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle Previewer 3\lib\fc\bin\KindleGen.exe I was able to click the “Choose” button and provide that path, and Scrivener RC11 then showed the normal options: [attac…