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left: 2.35%; }

Invisible Text Overlay

For text that is part of an image, or is irregularly sized, angled, or curved, you can capture that text as part
of the background and use invisible overlay text (using the opacity:0 property in the CSS file) to
enable selection, dictionary lookup, and search. The invisible overlay text should be positioned directly
over the corresponding text in the base image, and should be sized so that the highlight area of the
invisible text corresponds to the text in the base image.

HTML:

<div class="page" id="p3">

<div class="overlay" id="o3_1">Hi,</div>

<div class="overlay" id="o3_2">my</div>

<div class="overlay" id="o3_3">name</div>

<div class="overlay" id="o3_4">is</div>

<div class="overlay" id="o3_5">Honey!</div>

</div>

Due to the angled text, every word must be positioned individually so that the invisible HTML text overlays
the correct word.

CSS:

.overlay{

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position: absolute;

font-family: "billy";

opacity: 0;

color: red;

font-size: 500%;

line-height: 107%;

text-align: center;

#o3_1{top: 39.5%; left: 6.7%; font-size: 450%; }

#o3_2{top: 41.5%; left: 15.5%; font-size: 450%; }

#o3_3{top: 44.2%; left: 24.5%; font-size: 500%; }

#o3_4{top: 44.1%; left: 4.2%; font-size: 450%; }

#o3_5{top: 46.6%; left: 9.9%; font-size: 500%; }

13 Creating Kindle Edition with Audio/Video Content

Currently, Kindle Edition with Audio/Video content is available on Fire tablets (2nd generation and later),
iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Audio and video content is not supported on Kindle E-reader devices
(customers can read the book, but any audio or video is replaced with a message that it is not supported
on this device).

KF8 features are not currently supported in Kindle Edition with Audio/Video content (see sections 13.5
and 13.6 for details). The file delivered to Amazon should be a Mobi 7 EPUB with self-contained audio
and video or a Mobi 7 .prc file with self-contained audio and video. Publishers should use the latest
version of KindleGen to create a .prc file. KindleGen is available at www.amazon.com/kindleformat.

Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing Platform (KDP) does not currently accept Kindle Edition with
Audio/Video content. This format does not currently support Enhanced Typesetting.

Amazon does not currently accept any audio or video books with embedded audio that acts as read-along
content, which is defined as someone reading the full text or multiple pages of text from the book in either
audio or video format.

When testing Kindle Edition with Audio/Video content, the audio and video cannot be previewed on Kindle
Previewer or on Kindle devices and applications. To add audio and/or video content to your Kindle book,
follow the guidelines and examples below.

13.1 Audio Requirements

Amazon recommends using stereo channels in the MP3 source where possible, because Kindle supports
playing back audio in stereo. Use as high a bit rate as you need to hear the audio content appropriately;

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