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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Everyone has to start somewhere. The fact that the OP is testing in several apps shows more than a bit of intelligence.
I haven't done any publishing since the 90's when PageMaker was marginally okay.
I agree that professional editing and setup cannot be beat, but perhaps not affordable for a first effort.
If finances or preferences dictate that you must do it yourself, my advice is to take the text of a page or two and paste it into a few apps, format it and see which one works the best. Lots of free or trial apps out there.
I love calibre and I am quite partial to Word, but these are not publishing applications
Helen
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Hi, Helen:
Oh, I completely agree! I simply was trying to convey that there really isn't a shortcut to eBook-making...I guess, to word it badly, if you decide to become an accomplished chef, in the interim, you can acquire things like pre-made pastry shells, or pre-made sauces, etc., to aid you in your efforts. If you decide to make an ebook to sell commercially, you are still stuck learning SOME level of HTML and CSS, or at the very least, you need to have a pristine Word file to start with.
At that point, it's possible that the resulting output might be good enough for publication, but the OP said it wasn't. And I'd be very wary, MYSELF--me--of publishing a book on GooglePlay, just because it's going to be read in every bloody reader on the planet, which means, man, that file has to be SQUEAKY.
I wasn't trying to say that the OP needed to hire me or someone like me. I meant that s/he needs to start with Pablo's mini-Toot, and work his/her way out from there. That way, when s/he gets unexpected results from Calibre's output, s/he'll know what to do to fix it.
OR, use something relatively cheap like AWP, Jutoh or Scrivener. That's all I meant. Shortcuts either a) cost money, or b) don't really exist. The $40 substitutes for learning, or the learning for the $$$.
Hopefully, that came across okay?
Hitch