[edella]

I haven't participated at all here on the forums, although I'm a happy and very satisfied user of calibre. In fact, I'm so satisfied that I'm embarassed to be using it fior free.

I have a sony 505 and mostly read out of copyright books. I don't buy many ebooks, apart from baen scifi, because I can't change font sizes on DRM'd ebooks. I have slowly worstening eyesight, and caibre has saved my life here -- I am using 20 as my base font size at the moment, which is pretty big I guess!

I have a decent scanner and software to convert print to txt, and my next step will to be to go through various magazines and articles that I have saved, and get them into txt format or similar, so that I can 'calibre' them and read them (with bigger print!) on my ereader.

BUT, here are usually several articles per 'book', and I wonder if there is a straightforward and very simple way to make a TOC so that I can jump to any article. I am trying to learn a bit about HTML etc, but would be very happy with quite basic formatting (I'm not even that bothered about no beautiful paragraphs even!) but would love a working TOC so that I don't have to page through the entire book!

I know that you can probably do it within calibre in the convert section, but I am a total non-programmer and don't really understand what to do, although I've read through the manual. Can anyone give me a really simple 'TOC 101' to get me started.

A further complication is that HTML manuals etc are almost impossible to read without a magnifying glass, so its all very slow and frustrating to even try to learn more!

I know that this is a total boobie sort of email, but would be very grateful for anyone's help. I'm pretty sdure that just about everyone knows more about this subject than I do... sigh.

regards from edella