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Originally Posted by PennyPie
I'm sorry if I was out of place, but the opening of the thread was asking if folks
I was merely looking to find out the HOW it was done. I thought a natural extension of the what would be the how...since we're at varying levels of expertise in this technology thing.
Slayda says There are other, easier, more useful, and better formats. E.g. Doc, RTF, Epub. I'll look into that as well. And thanks, LDBoblo, for the info about the Open Office...I've heard of it, even sold it at my store...will give it a try!
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Yeah, if you want to conveniently create documents, you can do so very simply by making txt or RTF files without any extra software. You can also do conversions to ebook files like epub and lrf using tools like Calibre, which is supported pretty strongly across these fora. If you're simply making lists or you don't especially care about the aesthetic quality of ebooks (it seems very few people do, judging by the quality of the offerings on this site), these are convenient and have some flexibility in text resizing.
PDF is
by far the best choice for those of us who are very anal-retentive when it comes to setting up books with rigid and precise formatting standards, multiple fonts, rigid page numbers, and all the things that other formats can't do that makes a good book look like a good book. Perhaps it's wasted on rubbish e-ink screens, but it's nice to at least sometimes feel a bit like you're reading a real book, and not just a glorified text file on a glorified calculator.