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Old 01-20-2013, 10:44 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Tugger View Post
Please can you answer some very basic questions about Sigil.

1. Is it suitable for someone who wants to produce books for the Kindle?
It's suitable for making ePubs... which, if constructed with particular things in mind (things that may or may not be compliant with the ePub specs) can then be used to build a Kindle book.

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2. Would you have to use it to make the ePub file and then convert that using Calibre, or can it make a mobi file itself?
You'd have to use something to convert the ePub to mobi, because Sigil only makes ePubs.

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3. If you did that would you have a well formatted Kindle book, including a TOC.NCX for chapter navigation?
Depends on the program used to create the mobi from the ePub, and how you constructed the ePub in the first place (and if you properly created a working NCX in the epub to begin with). In other words... even a perfectly valid, working, well-formed ePub can be converted to a terribly formatted, non-compliant Kindle book.

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4. Is it suitable for someone who doesn't know or want to know about HTML, CSS etc.
Possibly. In my opinion... not really. In theory, yes. In practice, no.

Given a willingness to "pop open the hood," learn a bit of HTML/CSS and a willingness to spend a good deal of time learning what works and what doesn't when converting to Kindle's format (mostly through personal trial and error); Sigil's a fantastic tool in the overall workflow necessary to produce Kindle books. I use it for such all the time. But it's not going to do it for you if that's what you have in mind. You'll have to get a bit dirty.

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