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galavanter · 09-26-2010, 10:33 AM

ARE the first word or words in a section of a book ever capitalized in a book like I have just done?

TWO PDF files of books I would gladly purchase as ebooks, but are not yet available (actually one has become available and I purchased it from Amazon) have the first, or sometimes first two words capitalized.

IS THIS some funky stylistic gimmick or just a conversion error of some sort?

I was certain it was the latter and changed them all manually with Sigil after converting to epub with Calibre.

Then yesterday I purchased a Kindle book from Amazon, published by Simon and Schuster, and the ENTIRE FIRST LINE AND TWO OR THREE WORDS from the second line of every beginning chapter in a subsection is capitalized. This is just in the first chapter of a subsection, like VIII or IX, of the book.

I know ebooks, even from Simon and Schuster or Amazon, are not always perfect, but now I'm not sure if this is intentional or not. Seems goofy to me if it is...

If you have a Kindle app you can download the sample and see exactly what I mean.

http://www.amazon.com/Never-Enough-e...=AG56TWVU5XWC2

09-26-2010, 10:33 AM	#1
galavanter Zealot Posts: 117 Karma: 958 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: jetBook, iPod Touch, Kindle 3	Style Question - Capitalizing entire words ARE the first word or words in a section of a book ever capitalized in a book like I have just done? TWO PDF files of books I would gladly purchase as ebooks, but are not yet available (actually one has become available and I purchased it from Amazon) have the first, or sometimes first two words capitalized. IS THIS some funky stylistic gimmick or just a conversion error of some sort? I was certain it was the latter and changed them all manually with Sigil after converting to epub with Calibre. Then yesterday I purchased a Kindle book from Amazon, published by Simon and Schuster, and the ENTIRE FIRST LINE AND TWO OR THREE WORDS from the second line of every beginning chapter in a subsection is capitalized. This is just in the first chapter of a subsection, like VIII or IX, of the book. I know ebooks, even from Simon and Schuster or Amazon, are not always perfect, but now I'm not sure if this is intentional or not. Seems goofy to me if it is... If you have a Kindle app you can download the sample and see exactly what I mean. http://www.amazon.com/Never-Enough-e...=AG56TWVU5XWC2 Last edited by galavanter; 09-26-2010 at 10:39 AM.