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Originally Posted by Strahan
Hi. I have some large text files that I threw on my Kindle. I'd love to be able to edit the text file and insert some sort of code so the Kindle knows where chapter breaks are.
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Since
Calibre supports
Markdown input, you could use Markdown to mark chapters with # signs in your text files and do a TXT->MOBI conversion. For example:
will be converted to:
if you change the input file
Formatting style option to
markdown in Calibre.
Unfortunately, Calibre doesn't seem to be able to automatically generate a Kindle TOC, even if the Generate TOC option is enabled.
If you're not afraid of command line utilities, also check out pandoc, which can convert Markdown text files to epubs, which you can then convert to Kindle books with Calibre.