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Old 07-27-2012, 03:07 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Tango Mike View Post
I fully appreciate the fact that Word's save-as-html function creates a result that experts on this forum consider to be "messy," and that's probably a mild descriptor in relation to what you really think of it. But when I can open that file in Sigil, insert the chapter breaks, generate the TOC and save as an epub that converts to a mobi with Calibre, the messiness behind the scenes is immaterial when both formats appear flawlessly with ADE and Kindle for Mac and on a Kindle, Nook, iPad, etc.
But different users have different practical definitions for "flawlessly"

If a book looks OK, but does not react to my reader's settings of margin, font, etc., I don't call it flawless. And automatically-converted books have a tendency to behave like this, I'm afraid.
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