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Originally Posted by jerryflattum
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.
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ADE is Adobe Digital Editions. If you know HTML/XML & CSS, then you can easily edit the ePub. I use Notepad++. You have multiple options what to do with your eBook. What I would probably do is save it as (I think filtered) HTML from Word and then use Calibre to convert to ePub and work on cleaning up the mess. Then you can proceed to clean up any formatting from there.
If you don't have too much special formatting, you can save a test and using Calibre convert to ePub and put back in any bolds and italics and whatnot and fix up any formatting. I've never gone text to ePub via Calibre. So you can go to the the Calibre site and have a look at the manual on how to mark up text to put in say chapter marks and whatnot.
As for the site, you'll have to think about what it is you are trying to do and then try to figure out how to do it so it's not so busy.