Thread: Kindle Paperwhite .doc conversion?
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Old 07-06-2013, 09:14 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by maltar7 View Post
Hello everyone,

Could you please advise me about converting the book to my Kindle Paperwhite?

Thank you
@maltar7 - try this

Firstly you need to get rid of tabs and empty paragraphs from your Word document version of the book, use styles and paragraph formatting to get the document looking 'nice' in Word.

If you are using Word 2007/2010/2013 save the document to a DOCX (ie the default format).

But if you have an older version of Word that's OK, save your document as a .DOC. And download a copy of the Free version of Doxillion from NCH Software and use it to convert the .DOC to DOCX.

Now add your DOCX file to the Book in calibre, now convert the DOCX to AZW3.

Converting PDF's to e-book formats is problematic but if you have the text in Word that's a very good start, the support for DOCX is a recent addition to calibre and it is very good.

Let us know how you get on - happy to answer follow-up questions.

@Sabardeyn - thanks for the ack

BR
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