[JimLL]

I've had a basic Kindle for about a month and have put my own manuscripts on it.

I've been looking for a program to actually produce ebooks, but altho a lot of people say they can sell you somebody's free one I haven't find anything out there.

I'm only a single retiree and am not looking for anything for company production (probably couldn't figure it out if I had it), just the occasional book of accumulated fanfiction for myself and a couple relatives, but I'd like more than just text uploads - a cover and a few illustrations.

Then I kept seeing stuff about Calibre. It wasn't at all clear from forum posts I saw, what it was, so I just grabbed it. But I'm getting the feeling Calibre can only manipulate existing ebooks, not produce them. It should be useful after I get producing software.

Am I wrong?

If I'm right, can anyone steer me to a GUI based, relatively easy program to make ebooks with? (Amazon's Kindlegen is beyond useless to me. I gave up command line work years ago.)

Thanks for any and all help you can offer.

BTW, if someone can tell me how to change or move an illustration photo with Calibre, I could quit searching for a way. The reader shows them, but I can't find a way to replace them. Thanks.