[Catsnkites]

First, I didn't do a lot of searching on this question (ok, any searching) so, I apologize if it's been answered over and over again ...

How do they make an eBook file? Well, I mean, if I were doing it, I would take the ... maybe "Word" file (or whatever the author wrote it in) .... and simply convert it to the necessary format.

However, I don't think that's what was done to most of my ePub files. It almost seems that they were scanned and converted. I base this conclusion on the fact that, in many of the books I read, there are words in the middle of the line that are split, as if they were really at the end of the line. No matter what sized font I choose, these words are always split.

Like: con clusion OR re peat

This is hugely distracting, especially when the first part of the word is a word itself!

So, this got me to wondering how the original file was converted to ePub.

Now, I realize there are old, out of print books that are, indeed, scanned and run through OCR. (sometimes the OCR is horrible ... spacial characters and numbers and such).

Please enlighten me!

Susie
Olathe KS