A complete guide of ebook conversion for kindle

u_know_who · 02-12-2013, 10:40 PM

Hello, i am a newbie here. I have recently get a kindle as a gift from a relative. I am a student and i have my ebooks available in my PC. I need to convert them to suit in my kindle. I used calibre and K2pdf for conversion with default settings. But none of them give satisfactory result with default settings. I am afraid to check all the settings since theres so many. I have browsed through this forum. But there are also many tips and tricks. What i need a complete guide for ebook conversion.

Can anyone help me out?

crich70 · 02-13-2013, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by u_know_who

Hello, i am a newbie here. I have recently get a kindle as a gift from a relative. I am a student and i have my ebooks available in my PC. I need to convert them to suit in my kindle. I used calibre and K2pdf for conversion with default settings. But none of them give satisfactory result with default settings. I am afraid to check all the settings since theres so many. I have browsed through this forum. But there are also many tips and tricks. What i need a complete guide for ebook conversion.

Can anyone help me out?

Basically you don't really need to change much if anything I've found in order to do a straight conversion. What format are you trying to convert from?

u_know_who · 02-13-2013, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by crich70

Basically you don't really need to change much if anything I've found in order to do a straight conversion. What format are you trying to convert from?

from pdf to say mobi.

thomass · 02-13-2013, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by u_know_who

from pdf to say mobi.

- if it is not OCRed> use an OCR app ( [ Adobe Acrobat ( free version)+mobipocket creator] , ABBYY Fine Reader, etc ): pdf>html
- for OCRed PDFs Mobipocket Creator: pdf> html
MS Word with this and this tools: html to html(via transform-html) or filtered html ( using Word's save-as option)
using outline view to determine titles (ie chapters) could be easier
calibre (or kindlegen): "zipped html" to mobi or azw3

avantman42 · 02-13-2013, 03:51 AM

PDF is a terrible format to convert from. See this thread for information on why:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=118605

The Calibre Conversion forum is the place to ask for further help if you're using Calibre to convert your PDFs to mobi: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=235

crich70 · 02-13-2013, 02:00 PM

You might also find this program of use.

http://www.pdftoepub.com/ It can convert to HTML, Epub, or Kindle format directly though I'd convert to epub then open it in Sigil to clean up any errors before converting it to Kindle via Calibre.

JSWolf · 02-14-2013, 07:48 PM

You may as well forget the PDF exists. It's just a hassle to convert. You cannot do a conversion without errors. After you choose what software to convert the PDF, you then have to do an A/B compare the PDF to the conversion, fix that up and then fix the formatting. It's a lot of work for very little return.

02-12-2013, 10:40 PM	#1
u_know_who Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Dhaka,Bangladesh Device: Kindle	A complete guide of ebook conversion for kindle Hello, i am a newbie here. I have recently get a kindle as a gift from a relative. I am a student and i have my ebooks available in my PC. I need to convert them to suit in my kindle. I used calibre and K2pdf for conversion with default settings. But none of them give satisfactory result with default settings. I am afraid to check all the settings since theres so many. I have browsed through this forum. But there are also many tips and tricks. What i need a complete guide for ebook conversion. Can anyone help me out?

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avantman42 Guru Posts: 683 Karma: 2307257 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: UK Device: Kindle & Nook	PDF is a terrible format to convert from. See this thread for information on why: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=118605 The Calibre Conversion forum is the place to ask for further help if you're using Calibre to convert your PDFs to mobi: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=235 __________________ Russell Phillips Website : Blog : Tools for authors Use this link to get Dropbox, and we'll both get extra space for free: http://db.tt/EsJcGBG

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JSWolf Mobile Reader Geek Posts: 34,207 Karma: 13801264 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Sony Reader PRS-650, iPad	You may as well forget the PDF exists. It's just a hassle to convert. You cannot do a conversion without errors. After you choose what software to convert the PDF, you then have to do an A/B compare the PDF to the conversion, fix that up and then fix the formatting. It's a lot of work for very little return. __________________ Jon 2013 Reading List

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crich70 Wizard Posts: 4,114 Karma: 13677631 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	You might also find this program of use. http://www.pdftoepub.com/ It can convert to HTML, Epub, or Kindle format directly though I'd convert to epub then open it in Sigil to clean up any errors before converting it to Kindle via Calibre.


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