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koland · 04-13-2012, 10:52 AM

AT - you really need to get more sleep!

Thanks for checking (and I may delete the SW edition). Apparently the (older) computer I was using last night has some issue with their AZW formatting (yet loved many another that I was checking and archiving last night). I've managed to get the Amazon editions to open on a 2nd system, so I'll convert to EPUB, then to mobi, in hopes it strips out some of the fluff (if not, at least it's easy to edit as an epub).

I've had other books with tons of random font changes that I've had to fix and I can only conclude they are using Microsoft Word as their source files. Nothing else seems to generate such garbage in the output (since I've seen the same on a few old word docs I tried converting without first dumping into notepad to start over with a fresh doc).

p.s. Do they charge the delivery size fee per sale or per download (via 3G)?

04-13-2012, 10:52 AM	#7
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	AT - you really need to get more sleep! Thanks for checking (and I may delete the SW edition). Apparently the (older) computer I was using last night has some issue with their AZW formatting (yet loved many another that I was checking and archiving last night). I've managed to get the Amazon editions to open on a 2nd system, so I'll convert to EPUB, then to mobi, in hopes it strips out some of the fluff (if not, at least it's easy to edit as an epub). I've had other books with tons of random font changes that I've had to fix and I can only conclude they are using Microsoft Word as their source files. Nothing else seems to generate such garbage in the output (since I've seen the same on a few old word docs I tried converting without first dumping into notepad to start over with a fresh doc). p.s. Do they charge the delivery size fee per sale or per download (via 3G)?