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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
There is work involved from going to a Word document to making it published. It's not as simple as going to the "File Menu" and then executing the "Convert to PDF" or "Convert to Mobi" command. Not that way. Anyone who has done page layout design or printing of any kind would tell you it's not that automatic and simple.
Typesetting (both for digital versions and print versions) need to occur. Then there are pagination issues, layout, formatting, indexing, etc. And then, issues with footnotes or endnotes. A lot more complicated than one may sometimes think.
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It is not as simple as pushing button, but it is not prohibitively hard, costly or lengthy. The testament to which is the 10.000 book library right here on mobile read. Cost you nothing does it?
It takes me around 45 min to format the book I need in FB2 for archiving and then in LRF for reading. It does not include proofreading, but it does include chapter detection, epigraph, formatting, toc, pagination etc.