01-18-2012, 06:45 PM | #1 |
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Easy Conversion: Doc to Epub / Mobi
Over at http://pdxnat.wordpress.com/2011/10/...pub-mobi-file/ I wrote up a simple tutorial for converting a "word" doc to epub / mobi using Calibre.
It's based on setting the document title & chapter headers to "Header 1", save as "html", ask Calibre to "Remove spacing between paragraphs" and set the "Level 1 TOC (XPath expression)" to "//h:h1". This won't satisfy everyone's particular needs, but I think it's a helpful tutorial for folks just looking to convert a simple document into eReader format. Hope this helps someone. Calibre rules! |
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That's a lot of manual steps....
For a bit more automated approach, try using BookCreator Tool v3.0 instead. It requires that calibre be pre-installed but calls it from within MS Word to produce your .epub or .mobi ebook without all those manual steps. |
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The tutorial I wrote will surely be outdated soon with a "Turn this into an ebook" menu option in all word processors, but until then it's free and simple. |
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01-19-2012, 01:43 AM | #5 |
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