- Preview by device type, orientation, and font. Change the filters under the "Preview Options" section to see how your eBook will look on tablets, Kindle E-readers, and phones. You can also preview your book in portrait and landscape views in a variety of font types and sizes.
- Check specific elements. Use the filters in the "View All" drop down menu to preview particular elements (e.g., images, lists, tables) throughout your eBook. For example, if you want to check all the images in your book, select Images from the menu, and Previewer will display all pages with images.
- Get a quick, end-to-end preview. Enable the "Auto-Advance View" option in the "Navigation" section, and Kindle Previewer will automatically flip through your entire eBook. You can pause "Auto Advance" and change the speed.
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Want to see how your eBook will look before you publish it? Use Kindle Previewer, a free desktop standalone application, as you format your book so you can make sure it looks as intended. Kindle Previewer also shows you how your book will look with the latest typographic and layout improvements that come with Enhanced Typesetting.
If you're planning on publishing your eBook on KDP, you can also use our Online Previewer to make sure your book meets your expectations before you publish. The Online Previewer has the same basic functions (preview by device type, orientation, and font size) as the desktop version but has a different look and fewer filter and display options.
Note: Kindle Previewer 2.94 and older versions are no longer supported. Please download the latest version. Visit Kindle Previewer product page for more information.
If you're planning on publishing your eBook on KDP, you can also use our Online Previewer to make sure your book meets your expectations before you publish. The Online Previewer has the same basic functions (preview by device type, orientation, and font size) as the desktop version but has a different look and fewer filter and display options.
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Kindle Previewer features
With Kindle Previewer you can preview your book in several ways:
System requirements and supported languages
You can download Kindle Previewer for Microsoft Windows 8.1 or later for PC (64-bit) running on Intel or AMD CPUs, and Mac OSX v10.15 or later. You'll also need at least a 1.2 GHz processor, 2GHz is recommended, minimum 4 GB RAM, 8GB is recommended, and screen resolution of 1024 X 768.
Kindle Previewer supports eBooks in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, and Arabic.
Kindle Previewer supports eBooks in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, and Arabic.
Supported file formats
Kindle Previewer 3 opens eBooks in .epub, .mobi, .htm, .html, .xhtml, .mobi, .opf, .kpf, .doc and .docx formats.
Devices
Kindle Previewer currently shows you how your book would appear on Fire Tablets, Kindle for Android, Kindle for iOS, and Kindle E-readers. Kindle books work uniformly across website but may look different to readers based on screen size of the device:
- Tablet. Large devices like Apple iPad, Android tablets, and Fire tablets.
- Phone. Apple iPhone 7, Samsung Galaxy S7, and others.
- Kindle E-reader. Paperwhite, Voyage, and Oasis.
Enhanced Typesetting
Enhanced Typesetting is only applicable to reflowable format Kindle books (uploaded in .epub, .mobi, .doc(x), .html). To see if your book’ is supported for Enhanced Typesetting, go to the View menu in Kindle Previewer and select Book Information. If your book is compatible, the value for Enhanced Typesetting is displayed as Supported.
Enhanced Typesetting on Kindle Direct Publishing is supported for these languages: Afrikaans, Alsatian, Arabic, Basque, Bokmal Norwegian, Breton, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Cornish, Corsican, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Frisian, English, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Luxembourgish, Manx, Northern Frisian, Norwegian, Nynorsk Norwegian, Portuguese, Provencal, Romansh, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh, and the Indic languages Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Gujarati, and Marathi.
Enhanced Typesetting on Kindle Direct Publishing is supported for these languages: Afrikaans, Alsatian, Arabic, Basque, Bokmal Norwegian, Breton, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Cornish, Corsican, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Frisian, English, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Luxembourgish, Manx, Northern Frisian, Norwegian, Nynorsk Norwegian, Portuguese, Provencal, Romansh, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh, and the Indic languages Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Gujarati, and Marathi.
Troubleshooting
Why can't I preview my Mobi book in the Kindle E-reader device mode?
The Kindle E-reader device mode doesn't support previewing books in the older generation Mobi 7 format. We recommend converting your Mobi 7 book to .epub so you can preview your books using all the device modes and see if Enhanced Typesetting is supported for your book.
I see small boxes instead of the actual text in the table of contents while previewing an Indic language eBook on my Windows PC. What should I do?
This can happen if your machine does not have the necessary fonts to display the text. To fix this, install the corresponding language pack from the Language Control Panel on your Windows PC. You might have to restart your machine for the installation to take effect.
I can't preview my eBook in Word format. Why?
Some reasons could be:
- The file is password protected.
- The file name contains non-ASCII characters.
- The eBook was created using an old version of Word (e.g., Microsoft Word 97 or before).
- The eBook is in a language other than English.
Why don't I get an option to navigate by tables or lists for some books?
This feature is only available for books that support Enhanced Typesetting. If your book supports Enhanced Typesetting, the “Enhanced Typesetting” label is displayed in the "Navigation" section. Also, the options you see are populated depending on your book's content. If there are no tables in your book, you won't see an option to navigate by tables.
For a specific location, why can't I see the same content on Kindle Previewer and on my Kindle device?
In a reflowable book, the content adapts to different screen sizes and font sizes. For example, as you change the font size on a device, the text you see in a given page might flow in to the next page. For the same reason, there might be differences between the content you see in a given location in Kindle Previewer and on devices of different sizes. For fixed-layout books there’s no reflow, so the content you see in a specific location will match across devices of different sizes and on Kindle Previewer.
When I open my book in Kindle Previewer some part of the content goes beyond the margins and isn't visible.
This could happen if you use negative margins in your content. If that's the case, although the content is not visible on Kindle Previewer, it'll be displayed properly when the book is rendered on a Kindle app or Kindle device.
The zoom option is not enabled for my book.
The zoom functionality is used specifically for print replica books and will be disabled for other types of books. To zoom into an image in books in other formats, you can double-click on an image to open the image viewer and then double-click again to zoom in.
Send us feedback
We would love to know what you think about Kindle Previewer. Tell us what you like about it and what we can improve.
If you are willing to be contacted about your feedback, you can sign in using the Amazon credentials you use to publish on Kindle by selecting Help > Sign In. Although Amazon does not contact all users who provide feedback, signing in allows us to contact you if we need additional information to address your feedback.
To send us your feedback, click the menu and select Help > Send Feedback. You can rate your overall experience with Kindle Previewer and give us any other feedback that you may have.
If you are willing to be contacted about your feedback, you can sign in using the Amazon credentials you use to publish on Kindle by selecting Help > Sign In. Although Amazon does not contact all users who provide feedback, signing in allows us to contact you if we need additional information to address your feedback.
To send us your feedback, click the menu and select Help > Send Feedback. You can rate your overall experience with Kindle Previewer and give us any other feedback that you may have.
