Thread: I need a simple app for converting Word .doc file to .mobi
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Old 07-10-2011, 01:24 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by macdonald79 View Post
I kept hearing about how Calibre can convert any doc into any ebook format. So naturally, my head almost exploded when I realized it couldn't convert a simple Word file to a .mobi. I tried converting the Word file into an HTML, but that didn't work either. And the only other option mentioned in the Calibre help file is to content my carefully formatted Word file to a TXT file, which is just ridiculous.

Can somebody help me out here? I don't understand why this is so fracking difficult.

(Online converters work like gangbusters, but I feel paranoid submitting my manuscript to some server run out of some 16-year-old's bedroom.)
i use openoffice (it's open source software). it will load a doc file and save it as an odt file which, if you import it into calibre (it's open source software), calibre can convert it to a mobi. no cost and real slick software.
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