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Originally Posted by Eclipse
Hi all,
I just got my first e-reader and now I'm faced with a delicate problem. I would like to use it for reading technical documentations. They are done in MS-word and contain pictures, tables etc. I have tried Calibre, Sigil and seem to get a decent result, but, either it takes way to long time to convert (manually fixing all the styles in Word etc or the result is poor on my reader).
I saw some posts about eScape/Open Office but it doesn't support pictures.
Anyone who can give tips or hints on this problem?
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There are two solutions I can think of that are free.
You can try
BookCreator,(
download link) a macro/template for MS word that is optimized for formatting word documents. It uses calibre to create an eBook format such as MOBI, ePUB, PDF, etc...
1) Double click on the template and hit the "Import..." to import a Word document/text.
2) Do whatever formatting you need.
3) Press the <Create eBook...> button to create an eBook
Another good option is to use MobiReader or MobiCreator. The MobiReader will automatically create an MOBI file from a word document w/o any user interaction.
MobiCreator has more control over how the eBook is created. It uses a wizard based method to help one gerneate an eBook.
Once you have the deired MOBI you can quickly convert the book to ePUB.
The latter tools do require an extra step since the output is in MOBI format, but the conversion process of this tool is pretty good and this will save you a good amount of time.
My experience is converting MOBI to ePUB is pretty trival and consumes no time compared to time lost formatting a document.
RTF is not a good solution for the SONY readers, while RFT do support images, SONY's implementation does not. Nor does it support TOC and hyperlinks which makes it difficult to navigate documents.