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Originally Posted by Skydog
Oh, thanks so much, Zelda. I did, in fact, copy/paste into notepad just to see what it would look like after a conversion. I'm frustrated 'cause I want to add page breaks, TOC, etc. and I'm trying to learn as I go. Up to now, I've been spoiled with Calibre doing the work with conversions. I will have loads of questions.  |
calibre and sigil are two very different apps. calibre is excellent for managing your library, and it has a very helpful conversion feature which is useful for easily shifting between formats if the book has already been created. but, as you've discovered, it's not an ebook *editor*, which sigil is. sigil will allow you to easily add page breaks, images, toc and chapter title styles to your book and then export it as epub. since you've got the text in notepad, copy that and paste it into the sigil book view ; then, you can go along and insert page / chapter breaks (red "Ch" button ; it will show a double red line at each break), add chapter styles (select the chapter title, then use the "select heading" drop-down menu to the left in the toolbar ; usually, i use "heading 1" for book titles, 2 for subtitles and author name, and 3 for chapters, but that's my personal system and you don't have to do the same thing. any text formatted using a "heading" style will automatically be added to the TOC ; you can remove entries you don't want with the checkbox in the tools > toc editor dialogue), etc.
thanks very much for those links, skydog. apparently my google-fu was not working the other day, as i found a site called "epub2page.com" (or something) which is still not up. maybe they are switching to a new domain and haven't finished.
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Originally Posted by CharlieBird
Well, of course, that didn't work! It's ePub but lacks any style, TOC, etc. I should have known if it were that simple zelda_p wouldn't be "stitching" w/sigil!
Will take her advice and start learning sigil...tomorrow.
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please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions ! see above for a quick way to get started.
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Originally Posted by Panda Rose
So when you clever people have worked it all out and tweaked and played around with Sigil, calibre and all things technical etc, will somebody put it here at MR so those of us who cannot possibly work all this out can read rather than listen?
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unfortunately, since this book is copyrighted, we would not be allowed to post it here without the permission of the author. on the other hand, if you hypothetically have all the files yourself, and someone else hypothetically gives you a hand making a nicely formatted version, which they give you personally for your own use, i don't hypothetically see a problem with that.
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Originally Posted by wchris
You can also save simply as a text file,with a little editing. I have the first volume of the series in this format for my Sony.
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that's true, i always forget you can read .txt files directly on the sony since i never do (i don't like to read unformatted text, myself). that is surely the easiest solution of all. just select all the text of the chapter in the webpage, copy it (ctrl C or else right-click > copy), then paste (ctrl V or right click > paste) into your text file (notepad, word, etc.).
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Originally Posted by Panda Rose
it's that little phrase that I can't do - with a little editing.
Perhaps this whole forum is too advanced for me. I don't understand most of it, I think I shall stop now.
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panda rose, i know it can all seem quite overwhelming at first ! but don't be discouraged. there are a lot of people here who will be glad to help you. please don't hesitate to ask questions about how to get started ; we were all beginners once ! and i am sure there are plenty of people here who will tell you that anyone can learn about these things. i'm sure soon you'll be quite an expert.
