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Originally Posted by iroha
Firstly, I’d like to check if my current aims seem reasonable. I am thinking of starting in HTML and getting that into ePub format through Calibre, and then converting the ePub version into Mobi through Kindle Preview. I have some basic knowledge of HTML and can certainly plug text into a template.
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If the original book was written with MS Word or LibreOffice, you may want to give Calibre's DOCX to EPUB conversion a try. Unlike other conversions, ePubs generated from DOCX files with Calibre are usually a good starting point for further processing, if the authors consistently used styles.
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Originally Posted by iroha
I have is that I don’t find Calibre very user-friendly when I have several similar versions of the same book. I don’t seem to be able to save different versions with clearly different names.
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Check out
Sigil, which'll allow you to save different versions like any other app. It also features an integrated
validator, which is almost as good as
epubcheck.
It's also very easy to add the guide items required for Kindle books (cover, toc, text) via Sigil's Add Semantics context menu.
BTW, if you don't intend to publish the book via KDP, you can also generate an AZW3 book with Calibre to save space.
(Kindle Previewer generates a hybrid .mobi file that contains the old and new file formats and the source files.)