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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The website is too busy. People will tend to just leave instead of bothering to read it to see if anything may be of interest.
Now as to eBook formats, you want ePub, Mobipocket, MS Reader, and PDF (not an eBook format).
Now, since you've foolishly used Word, you will have a lot of work ahead of you. Save your document as HTML and use Calibre to convert it to ePub. Now take the ePub and clean it up. get rid of all the crap/garbage that Word added in. make it very clean and neat code. Once you have that fixed so it is nice and neat code and it looks good, small margins, no line spaces between paragraphs except for sections breaks, justified, and the main text is the default font size, run it through FlightCrew t find any code errors and fix them. Then once that's done and you've looked at every page in ADE, then use Calibre to convert it to Mobipocket and MS Reader.
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JS Wolf: The information you provided is incredibly useful. You provided it in a way that it's like a roadmap.
I bookmarked FlightCrew and ADE having never heard of either before. And Calibre was one of the first solutions offered after I entered the MobileRead forums.
Just to make sure, ADE is Adobe Digital Editions, right?
There's a high learning curve to following your roadmap, but that does not deter me. Knowing the process and what solutions are available is getting 1/2 way there.
The eBook world has exposed MSWord as a clumsy and not-Internet-friendly program. It simply is the only program I knew in terms of creating a legible and formatted document.
I would suspect instead of trying to clean up a Word doc, to save it as a text file and start from there. What do you think?
Otherwise, thank you so much. You are truly helping me get where I want to go. -- Jerry
PS: If you think I'm struggling with how to create eBooks, you should see the website design proposal I'm working on for my website. No one knows better than me the mess I've created.
In fact, I'm hoping, in part, that the software and web applications solutions I seek for my website will integrate what I'm trying to do in terms of book presentation. I realize certain formats have proprietary requirements. But I'm also looking for innovative ways to present text in conjunction with my other ventures and adventures. It's highly experimental and exploratory. I'm prepared to stumble and fall many times before I'm finally up and running.
Innovative mindsets will understand much more what I'm trying to do than black and white mindsets that have a tendency to criticize before asking questions.
The Internet is an innovation and promotes innovation and that is the leadership I follow in terms of exploring my own quest for creative solutions.
Thanx again.