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Old 12-17-2010, 10:45 AM   #3
Lancer Kind
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I used MobiPocket Reader on the PC. It does a quick and easy job if you are putting together something quick for friends or work, but for creating a well-crafted book, it did not do a good job in converting from Word/HTML into PRC. Now I'm being picky because I want my readers to have a high quality ebook. I ended up doing a lot of hand editing of the HTML to get the page breaks indented in the same tradition as a paper book (paragraph breaks starting a new section aren't indented by a tab where all following parapgraph breaks are indented.) That is something you may not be conscious of, so let me pick something more obvious:
How to remove the bullet icons from the front of each item of the TOC?

I couldn't overcome that choice hardcoded by the MobiPocket team.

Can you quickly create a functional ebook with MobiPocket? Yes.
Can you easily craft it so it has the same (ignoring the fonts issue here as that is unsurmountable for the Kindle) vague look as a printed book? Not without a lot of hand work.

The layout differences between Calibre and Kindle, I feel is a Calibre bug. Maybe it's been resolved by now.

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