Creating Your Own Kindle eReader Content

Creating Your Own Content for the Amazon Kindle eReader

You can create your own content for the Amazon Kindle in several different ways. The first method that I have just tested is using Microsoft Word, a component of Microsoft Office. The document I prepared to test this was prepared using the Macintosh version of Microsoft Office 2004. The first thing that I noticed about the document is that it only uses Times Roman for all the text. I had tried creating paragraphs using Times Roman, Tahoma and Skia; the only font used in the edition that Amazon created was Times Roman. The other thing that I noticed about it is that while it converts headers in Word documents, it appears to ignore footers.

The Word document uploaded to my Kindle, via emailing the Word document to my free Kindle email address ends up being two files on my Kindle, one ending with the .AZW, and the other ending with the .MBP extension. Amazon discusses this filename extension on this help page - Reading Personal Documents on Kindle