Thread: From *docx to ebook, fast and easy, how?
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Old 02-10-2025, 06:46 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Notjohn View Post
It's been so long since I used Calibre that I had an awful time outputting an epub (and an awful time FINDING it again!). So I tried uploading a *.docx. When I finally got them on my Fire tablet, they were identical!

(Weirdly, almost every instance of "modern" was rendered "modem".)

Thank you all!
I'm guessing you used the library manager.

My fault I should have been explicit and told you to use the calibre-editor directly and then after selecting File->Import an HTML or DOCX file as a new book you would have seen this dialogue (but blank) :

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Can't get much quicker and easier than that, and:

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The EPUB will be generated with minimal changes from the source, unlike doing a full conversion in calibre.
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