[northstar7]

Hi. I have been working on converting a publisher's list to ebooks. The books will be for sale on Amazon, iBook, iPublish and so on.

So far I've converted about 100 books to the mobi format with minimal problems. But the epub format is giving me a lot of headaches.

The book I have started with is a simple presentation of 150 short stories, some with line drawings as illustrations. I produced it by starting with a Word doc, which I saved as filtered html in Word. Then I used Calibre to create the epub from the html.

The problem is that each flavor of ebook software displays the book in different ways. ADE displays it well. So does the ebub extension for Firefox.

Lucidor displays only the first 50 entries in the TOC, but if you scroll down, the stories and illustrations are displayed well. Same for RBReader. Koolbits will only display the first 50 stories.

Azzardi displays only the first 50 stories in the TOC and while the stories not in the TOC are there, any story with an illustration is chopped off at the point where the illustration should be. Sigil does the same. Stanza doesn't display any formatting.

So I'm wondering how to deal with this situation. Is using Calibre from filtered html a good approach to creating an epub?

Is there a reader that's accepted generally as the standard, so that if a book reads well on that reader, it's the best you can do?

I'd be grateful for any suggestions, insights, etc.