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Download previous versions of the Kindle Previewer App.

Every time Amzon.com updates its Kindle Previewer application, it adds new Kindles to its preview options, while removing some older models. But what if you still want to test your E-books on those models? For that, you'll need the old versions. Here you can download Kindle Previewer 2.901 and 2.92.

Amazon offers Kindle Previewer as a straight .zip file; there is no disk image or installer. Please use these programs at your own risk.

As soon as you unzip and install an older version of Kindle Previewer, Amazon will try to update it, so be careful:

Kindle Previewer dialog box

As soon as the program is open, go to the "help" menu of your Macintosh and select "Update Options." Tell Kindle Previewer you don't want any background/automatic updates.

Kindle Previewer Preferences

Please note that different versions of Kindle Previewer read/write to the same Mac OS X preferences .plist file. To save yourself a lot of needless worry, consider taking one of these precautions:

  • Burn copies of older Kindle Previewer applications to optical media such as CD-R or DVD-R.
  • Disconnect from the Internet before launching Kindle Previewer.

These are the .zip files as we downloaded them from Amazon's site over the past year. These are older versions of software thatAmazon continues to offer free of charge. We'll keep them available here until we run out of bandwidth or Amazon asks us to stop.

Kindle Previewer 2.901 (.zip for Mac)

This is the .zip file Amazon served up in late 2013. It wasn't a .dmg, just a zipped application file. Devices supported by Kindle Previewer 2.901 include:

  • Kindle (the original "wedge" reader), Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle DX
  • Kindle Fire (original), Kindle Fire HD, and Kindle Fire HD 8.9"
  • Kindle for iOS.

This software is provided as-is; Bicycle Comics and The Yellow Buick Review can offer no technical support or assistance. Please download and use the latest official version from Amazon.com if you require guidance.

Kindle Previewer 2.92 (.zip for Mac)

This is the .zip file Amazon served up in mid-2014. It wasn't a .dmg, just a zipped application file. Devices supported by Kindle Previewer 2.92 include:

  • Kindle Fire (original), Fire HD, Fire HD 8.9"
  • Kindle DX and Kindle Paperwhite
  • iOS Preview has been deprecated (though it remains a menu option)

This software is provided as-is; Bicycle Comics and The Yellow Buick Review can offer no technical support or assistance. Please download and use the latest official version from Amazon.com if you require guidance.

Yellow Buick Review Slides from ebookcraft 2015

This is the .pdf file of the slides I presented in my talk at ebookcraft 2015 in Toronto. That presentation included quick glances at several (cached) Websites, so I have added a few pages to this slide deck with links to those sites. The ebookcraft Website will post videos of all talks in the coming weeks; please understand that these slides were just backdrops to what I hope was a substantive talk about formatting poetry anthologies for EPUB and KF8. Many thanks to Laura Brady and everyone at BookNet Canada for arranging such a delightful conference!


The Yellow Buick Review is a project by Bicycle Comics. Learn more about how to format poetry for E-books at http://yellowbuickreview.wordpress.com.
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