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Originally Posted by Emma Evan
Hello dear all, 
I'm new at mobileread.com and posting my first thread and also very exciting to find this website.
I would like to ask that what type of software you guys use to write e-books.
I used MS word but now sick with it. After every new page I have to adjust lines, header, footer, page number and pictures.
Kindly informed me with your valuable experience.
Waiting for your replies.
Regards, |
Well, I think that Word gets a
very bad rap; I generally find that people who struggle with it have never bothered to take any of MS's online tutorials or free mini-classes, and learned to use it; once you have, it's as useful for outlining, note-taking, complex plot creation, etc., as any other program out there (I have LSBXE, YWriter, Open Office and have used Scrivener, as well as being quite experienced in Wordperfect, so I think I can speak somewhat intelligently about it). However, each author seems to feel the need to have a program suited to their individual style, so...good luck with that. Some people like to have a "writing program" that has images in it, for inspiration; some want one to play specific music for the same reason, etc. I was once in a spirited debate about the merits, or lack thereof, of Liquid Story Binder (LSBXE), so I'll stay off that particular topic. On to the ebooking side...
On a bright note, ebooks do not have pages, much less lines, header, footer, page numbers, so, that's fewer things for you to worry about. You may wish to familiarize yourself with how eBooks work--there's a massive library here at MobileRead--before you design yourself into a corner. I'm not sure what type of book you'd be writing (a kids' book, perhaps?) that would need lines, headers, footers and page numbers adjusted after "every new page," (cookbook? Even then, why page numbers, or headers and footers?), but you can nuke all that for an ebook, and just work on the content.
Hope that helps.
Hitch