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Originally Posted by Tugger
Please can you answer some very basic questions about Sigil.
1. Is it suitable for someone who wants to produce books for the Kindle?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.