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feltonjohn · 02-13-2010, 07:18 PM

Since this is my first post, hello and thanks in advance for your patience. I thought it would be nice to have one of my favorite books available on the iphone (Stanza). The book in question, God in the Dock by CS Lewis does not seem to be available in ebook format so I bought a new copy, had the spine cut off, and ran 346 pages through a sheetfeed scanner creating a PDF. After using Acrobat to OCR it, Caliber is able to import the readable PDF and export as ePub for transfer to the iphone via Stanza. This all works pretty well even though it takes a lot of time. My question is about creating chapters because without them the book is difficult to navigate and just not so much fun. I read many posts on the ePub section of the forum, but that stuff is too far over my head to understand. Can anyone point me to a more step by step process? The book is divided into 3 parts with each part having 23, 16 and 9 chapters respectively. Thanks again for any help.

02-13-2010, 07:18 PM	#1
feltonjohn Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: iphone	scanned to ebook for iphone Since this is my first post, hello and thanks in advance for your patience. I thought it would be nice to have one of my favorite books available on the iphone (Stanza). The book in question, God in the Dock by CS Lewis does not seem to be available in ebook format so I bought a new copy, had the spine cut off, and ran 346 pages through a sheetfeed scanner creating a PDF. After using Acrobat to OCR it, Caliber is able to import the readable PDF and export as ePub for transfer to the iphone via Stanza. This all works pretty well even though it takes a lot of time. My question is about creating chapters because without them the book is difficult to navigate and just not so much fun. I read many posts on the ePub section of the forum, but that stuff is too far over my head to understand. Can anyone point me to a more step by step process? The book is divided into 3 parts with each part having 23, 16 and 9 chapters respectively. Thanks again for any help.