CSS and html Tutorial

Kindle does a pretty good job of converting Word 97 - 2003 documents if you use the right formatting. But the process isn't perfect. You'll find that some HTML knowledge is very useful for providing a friendly user experience on Kindle.

After you've uploaded your file, Kindle converts it to HTML. You can download the zip file to your computer. Then unzip it to a folder with the same name as Kindle gave the zip folder.

When you open the folder, you will see a list of files. The one you want is the one with the extension.html.

Open this file in a text editor. My favorite is Notepad++. It uses color to identify opening and closing tags, so it's easier to figure out what's gone wrong if you miss a piece of coding.

The HTML Kindle uses is simple once you know what you are looking at. The first thing you will see is the opening HTML tag . This is followed by . There may be a pair of