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Old 04-26-2008, 03:32 AM   #1
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Location: San José, CA
Device: Amazon Kindle 1, Sony PRS-300, Amazon Kindle 3
Gutenberg to Kindle, the Long Way

My apologies if this starts to ramble. I'll provide background in this post and then details in my next post. This project started when I figured I wanted to learn how to create an ebook for my Kindle from a Project Gutenberg text after being dissatisfied with the quality of the version provided on Mobipocket's free books.

Invaluable resources include:
Project Gutenberg (of course)
Mobipocket eBook guide by HarryT
Quick Tip: Margins by Joshua Tallent
Google Books

Unfortunately, Amazon's own DTP site was less than informative beyond one user's tip that the best results were using a .mobi file as your master file to send to DTP Amazon ...
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