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Originally Posted by jimdays
I initially tried that (convert doc to epub with several different methods, Calibre/online), but around the pictures and author sidebars, the results were completely unacceptable.
Examples of sidebar/pics:
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I'll just cut this short. There is NO SUCH THING as an automagic conversion for a book that has wraparound articles, sidebars, floating images, etc. In trying to achieve this, you are causing yourself untold amounts of unnecessary work--all created in the false hope that you'll have LESS work. This is not the case.
You would have been FAR better off just going straight from Word. You will face this extra work one way or the other. It's not necessarily "less work" to do the ePUB from Word, but it's LESS CRUFT to clean up. When you try to invent a process, as you have, you are not seeing the iceberg. By which I mean, you think you are seeing progress, on the surface; but the ungodly mess that you're not seeing, under the hood, will come back and wreak havoc when you try to put this on any real device.
You're spinning your wheels, chasing ephemera that isn't real. What you think you're seeing, in BookView, isn't what you'll see down the road.
OH, and by the way: using freebie online converters or calibre isn't helping you, either. Not the way you're using them.
BUT, I'll shut up now. As sure as shooting, you'll keep trying the methods that SEEM to produce the result you want. I'm really glad I'm not the one cleaning up the undersides of that file.
Hitch