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seajewel · 12-02-2010, 11:33 PM

Hi,

I have a few html books that I've tried converting to epub, and the converted book always has weird ordering. For instance, the beginning of the book has "Chapter Nine" instead of the cover, the ToC, the prologue, soforth.

I did try converting to mobi and such to see if I could do the conversion in a couple of steps, but I realize that the problem must be the html book itself. It must be missing some sort of directions setting up the proper order of the book. The html, when unzipped, has a bunch of folders (fonts, images) and html files named book-1, book-2, book-toc, soforth.

Does anyone know how I can fix this, either in the html files or in some other type of editor to have calibre properly interpret the order of the chapters? I'm so spoiled by calibre, I don't even know where to begin here, but I would really love to read the book on my Sony Reader..

12-02-2010, 11:33 PM	#1
seajewel Fanatic Posts: 589 Karma: 1451235 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: Sony PRS-505, Sony PRS-950	Epub Converted from HTML has messed up ordering Hi, I have a few html books that I've tried converting to epub, and the converted book always has weird ordering. For instance, the beginning of the book has "Chapter Nine" instead of the cover, the ToC, the prologue, soforth. I did try converting to mobi and such to see if I could do the conversion in a couple of steps, but I realize that the problem must be the html book itself. It must be missing some sort of directions setting up the proper order of the book. The html, when unzipped, has a bunch of folders (fonts, images) and html files named book-1, book-2, book-toc, soforth. Does anyone know how I can fix this, either in the html files or in some other type of editor to have calibre properly interpret the order of the chapters? I'm so spoiled by calibre, I don't even know where to begin here, but I would really love to read the book on my Sony Reader..