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Marilynx · 02-10-2010, 08:48 PM

Greetings from New Orleans.

I am new to ebooks, currently using the free Kindle for PC Reader. (Can't afford two Kindles or two of just about any other ereader, as my husband would want one, too.)

We've been reading from the Baen Free Library quite a bit. We have a serious collection of hard copy books (around 12,000) and am running out of space for them. Regrettably, a great deal of what would be significantly useful to have in e-book format isn't available that way -- history research, travel research, etc. It would be really handy to have an e-reader with everything I'm currently working on so I can look things up without having a book avalanche.

I've DL and installed (and donated to) Calibre, which works nicely, but I have determined that filtered HTML derived from a Word XP document is not formatted as cleanly in the e-book format as it was in Word. Toward the end of correcting this formatting, I've DL and installed Sigil, but can't find an instruction file to determine how to import text into it. Otherwise, it may be straightforward. At least, I hope it will be, as I know nothing of HTML.

One problem with Calibre is that the fractions 1/3 and 2/3 don't convert to ebook format from some formulae. Not sure how to correct this, as I'm using common fonts in Word -- Times-Roman and Garamond.

All of this should probably be posted in separate sections, but that's basically why I wandered in.

02-10-2010, 08:48 PM	#1
Marilynx Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: none	From N'Awlins Greetings from New Orleans. I am new to ebooks, currently using the free Kindle for PC Reader. (Can't afford two Kindles or two of just about any other ereader, as my husband would want one, too.) We've been reading from the Baen Free Library quite a bit. We have a serious collection of hard copy books (around 12,000) and am running out of space for them. Regrettably, a great deal of what would be significantly useful to have in e-book format isn't available that way -- history research, travel research, etc. It would be really handy to have an e-reader with everything I'm currently working on so I can look things up without having a book avalanche. I've DL and installed (and donated to) Calibre, which works nicely, but I have determined that filtered HTML derived from a Word XP document is not formatted as cleanly in the e-book format as it was in Word. Toward the end of correcting this formatting, I've DL and installed Sigil, but can't find an instruction file to determine how to import text into it. Otherwise, it may be straightforward. At least, I hope it will be, as I know nothing of HTML. One problem with Calibre is that the fractions 1/3 and 2/3 don't convert to ebook format from some formulae. Not sure how to correct this, as I'm using common fonts in Word -- Times-Roman and Garamond. All of this should probably be posted in separate sections, but that's basically why I wandered in.