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Old 06-10-2011, 01:07 PM   #1
Joshua Shapiro
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Help Creating Epub Book!! Help!!

Hello fellow ePub readers and authors,

if there is anyone here who understand how to make an ePub book
I would be very grateful

here is my status

I am creating my e-books in MS Word and saving the file
as a filtered HTML

then I have my book already optimized for Kindle so I had
to make a few changes to the html so it would look correct
(width=0 in the <p> command and made sure all the
headers for table of contents are h1, h2, or h3

I also included pagebreaks around my photos

now when I used AVS document converter to change
my html file into ePub I saw the following issues
and I do have Sigil if this tool will help me correct it

1) how do I place the cover as the first page
(in mobipocket creator I specified this)

2) the pages did not flow properly - maybe due
to the html code for a page break?

3) the table of contents was not recognized

4) it appears an extra page was added in ePub
called titlepage.html which included the first part
of my book which was repeated for another page
called chapter1.html

are we able to create separate html pages
for each chapter and appendix?

anyway I think I am very close to have our ePub
version done, all the photos transferred but
just need a bit of guidance from an expert

just like now I can help someone do a Kindle e-book

if we could speak directly via email or skype
that would be great

my email is crystalskullexplorers@gmail.com

I am thinking since I design my own webpages
Sigil will let me do the same to create an ePub
document rather then hope Calibre converts it
properly but as I recall Calibre did ask questions
about the document like Mobipociket creator

anyway if anyone can help I would be glad
to include you in our book and promote something

thanks

Joshua Shapiro
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