[Darkitow]

Hi everybody! I'm sorry if I'm asking something that is brought up very often, but I've been searching a bit and I didn't find anything clear.

A while ago, right when I bought my Kindle 3, I got into formatting e-books so I could adapt my collection of "real" books into it. I remember using BookDesigner, Mobipocket Creator and Calibre to do the work, which was satisfactory for me. My reading habits go somewhat erratic, and sometimes I read many books for some months, then I don't read for another while. Since I had adapted many books, I didn't touch these programs for almost a year or two except for some random fix.

After a hardware revamp to my computer, and prior to my summer vacations, I just decided to reinstall these programs and add some new books to the collection, but for some reason, they don't wanna work well anymore (except Calibre). I suppose the reason is simply that they're somewhat outdated and they might require older software to function, because for example, BD keeps popping me a "run-time error 339" about some dhtmled.ocx thing, and MC crashes when I try to add some tags like the "start reading" one for no reason (I've been using HarryT's guide to do all this work).

My question would be if there's any easier and/or more updated way to do this work. I don't need to adapt any scan since I just download them if I liked them the first time I read them "IRL". I've been seeing names like Kindle Previewer, Sigil, MS Word add-ons, etc, but I'm not entirely sure about their uses in the whole proccess.

What I wanna do is basically pick a text and format it properly (adding titles, page breaks, chapter tags, TOC, etc), to produce an e-book that I can read in my Kindle. Which would be the best programs to use for this?

Thanks in advance!