Kindle crashing on Mac when attempting to open the download

[spoonstein]

When I download the file and attempt to open it in Kindle, it crashes Kindle. When I reopen Kindle, I see a new book along with the LWM book. If I attempt to open the LWM book, the same thing repeats. Happy to load a video of the behavior if need be.

I'm using Kindle of Mac version 1.3.

[bemosior]

Reproduced this as well on Kindle for Mac 1.30.0 (59057). Same behavior.

1. Open .mobi file with Kindle
2. Kindle crashes
3. Two books appear in library, one blank, one with the Wardley Maps book cover (image below)
4. Attempting to open any copy of the book results in an additional crash, and an additional blank copy in the library.

I found this for asciidoctor from 2015 (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-epub3/issues/26) but I'm not set up to dig further yet.

Maybe using the PDF is the right move here for now with Kindle?

[bemosior]

I spent a few hours on this tonight.

Ran into an obstacle or two. Kindlegen is no longer provided by a gem, since Amazon pulled its distribution except as part of the official Kindle Previewer app. If you download that and add the binary to your path /Applications/Kindle Previewer 3.app/Contents/lib/fc/bin/ that will get you past that particular hiccup.

However, I was unable to get past the Kindle app itself crashing. Even if I replace everything with a simple "hello world" style asciidoc, the same crash happens with the generated mobi file. Fun! Gonna shelve my work on this for now.

Edit: one parting note... attempting to open the mobi in Kindle Previewer results in this error message: Kindle Previewer does not support this file, which has either been created using an older version of KindleGen or a third party application. We recommend using EPUB or DOCX format directly for previewing and publishing your book on Kindle. Perhaps Amazon is acting deliberately here.