ebooks made with Sigil opening at different places when opened on Kindle

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Notjohn

When I was young, I supported my (novel-)writing habit by writing tech manuals for my classmates who had graduated as engineers. Even after I became self supporting, I used to pick up mad money as a consultant for the Justice Department, writing "executive summaries" for academic research papers on such arcania as Community Based Policing. You can't imagine how much money there is, or anyhow was, in "consulting" for the US government!

Oh, yes, I actually can. :-)

My point is that experts aren't very good at explaining themselves to the public. They need interpreters. (If you wrote a formatting manual, however, I would buy it and retire mine.)

You know, people say that to me all the time. And truth be told, I could probably show the average person a relatively idiot-proof way to make a great ePUB, and thence, a great mobi. But...wouldn't that be a bit self-defeating?

ANYWAY, I'm not the author, you are. I juzz makes de books, mon.

Hitch

[BetterRed]

Back when I was running largish IT projects it was always harder to find good tech-writers than good programmers. I can recall an over-qualified software engineer complaining to the CIO when he discovered that the tech-writer who had been plaguing him with 'why does it work this way..." questions was being paid half as much again as he was. I'm please to say she gave him no sympathy whatsoever - he left soon after.

BR

[Gregg Bell]

My point is that experts aren't very good at explaining themselves to the public.

I would tend to agree with this but I would put an "often" in between "experts" and "aren't." Some experts explain superbly.