Formatting for Kindle

marshland · 10-16-2010, 06:54 AM

Can anyone suggest a good automatic formatter from html or word to kindle. I've tried Auto Kindle ebook Converter without much success. The chapter headings get squashed and some paragraphs appear in bold. Afraid my tech skills don't run to html so in a bit of a pickle. Any suggestions gratefully received.

C.I.Bond · 10-16-2010, 10:58 PM

My advice, having done all this last week is to buy the book by Joshua Tallent. http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Formatt...7283587&sr=8-1

It basically tells you to save your word doc as a stripped htm file and then how to go about formatting it. The only real way I see is to use the MobiPocketReader Converter and then look at the results with the ‘Kindle for the PC’ app. Then go back and mess with whatever is screwed up.

Tallents book is good but ignore the stuff about Regular Expressions, even people who code don’t like them and you don’t really need them if you have a good html editor, most are free.

Remember: The converter creates a file called MyPublications (this is basically a build folder)– This will hold the cover art, the htm file you are using, as well as the files with all your metadata -.opf file (the stuff you typed into the Converters UI) and the final .prc file. If you make changes to your htm file and then try to run the converter without first deleting your old htm file that it has stored it will rename the new htm file to something else. This will mess everything up if you have created your Table of Contents and Start tags with the old file in the path. So delete the stored htm file each time you make changes and you won’t have a problem.

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I suffered for my art and now it's your turn, but at $0.99 can you afford not to suffer? Blood Bank

MrPLD · 10-16-2010, 11:10 PM

Marshland,

Take a look at "Calibre", it's very popular and works on multiple platforms.

Paul.

10-16-2010, 06:54 AM	#1
marshland marshland Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: UK Device: auto Kindle converter	Formatting for Kindle Can anyone suggest a good automatic formatter from html or word to kindle. I've tried Auto Kindle ebook Converter without much success. The chapter headings get squashed and some paragraphs appear in bold. Afraid my tech skills don't run to html so in a bit of a pickle. Any suggestions gratefully received.

10-16-2010, 10:58 PM	#2
C.I.Bond I need to clean this tub! Posts: 49 Karma: 28 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Seattle Device: Kindle	My advice, having done all this last week is to buy the book by Joshua Tallent. http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Formatt...7283587&sr=8-1 It basically tells you to save your word doc as a stripped htm file and then how to go about formatting it. The only real way I see is to use the MobiPocketReader Converter and then look at the results with the ‘Kindle for the PC’ app. Then go back and mess with whatever is screwed up. Tallents book is good but ignore the stuff about Regular Expressions, even people who code don’t like them and you don’t really need them if you have a good html editor, most are free. Remember: The converter creates a file called MyPublications (this is basically a build folder)– This will hold the cover art, the htm file you are using, as well as the files with all your metadata -.opf file (the stuff you typed into the Converters UI) and the final .prc file. If you make changes to your htm file and then try to run the converter without first deleting your old htm file that it has stored it will rename the new htm file to something else. This will mess everything up if you have created your Table of Contents and Start tags with the old file in the path. So delete the stored htm file each time you make changes and you won’t have a problem. ______________________________________ I suffered for my art and now it's your turn, but at $0.99 can you afford not to suffer? Blood Bank Last edited by C.I.Bond; 10-16-2010 at 11:08 PM. Reason: spelling issue

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10-16-2010, 11:10 PM	#3
MrPLD Author's pet-geek Posts: 933 Karma: 1040670 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: North Queensland, Australia Device: Kindle 3 Wifi, Onyx Boox M96	Marshland, Take a look at "Calibre", it's very popular and works on multiple platforms. Paul.

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