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FizzyWater · 03-04-2009, 10:54 PM

So far, I've not been able to create an ePub in Calibre that doesn't crash/reboot my reader. I'm not blaming Calibre entirely - I start with Microsoft Word to make RTFs, convert them to Mobi files, and use the Mobi-created HTML files to make the LRF or ePub.

So there's probably a lot of extraneous garbage in my files that ePub is just not robust enough to handle.

I'm not much of an HTML coder - never even figured out how to use CSS - let alone XML. My coding all comes from 3.2 or earlier days. I don't think I'm going to be able to make a good ePub until someone comes up with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG word processor that doesn't gunk up the HTML conversion with lots of custom coding.

03-04-2009, 10:54 PM	#6
FizzyWater You kids get off my lawn! Posts: 4,220 Karma: 73492664 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Device: Oasis 2 and Libra H2O and half a dozen older models I can't let go of	So far, I've not been able to create an ePub in Calibre that doesn't crash/reboot my reader. I'm not blaming Calibre entirely - I start with Microsoft Word to make RTFs, convert them to Mobi files, and use the Mobi-created HTML files to make the LRF or ePub. So there's probably a lot of extraneous garbage in my files that ePub is just not robust enough to handle. I'm not much of an HTML coder - never even figured out how to use CSS - let alone XML. My coding all comes from 3.2 or earlier days. I don't think I'm going to be able to make a good ePub until someone comes up with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG word processor that doesn't gunk up the HTML conversion with lots of custom coding.