02-12-2013, 10:40 PM | #1 |
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A complete guide of ebook conversion for kindle
Hello, i am a newbie here. I have recently get a kindle as a gift from a relative. I am a student and i have my ebooks available in my PC. I need to convert them to suit in my kindle. I used calibre and K2pdf for conversion with default settings. But none of them give satisfactory result with default settings. I am afraid to check all the settings since theres so many. I have browsed through this forum. But there are also many tips and tricks. What i need a complete guide for ebook conversion.
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02-13-2013, 03:51 AM | #5 |
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PDF is a terrible format to convert from. See this thread for information on why:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=118605 The Calibre Conversion forum is the place to ask for further help if you're using Calibre to convert your PDFs to mobi: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=235 |
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You might also find this program of use.
http://www.pdftoepub.com/ It can convert to HTML, Epub, or Kindle format directly though I'd convert to epub then open it in Sigil to clean up any errors before converting it to Kindle via Calibre. |
02-14-2013, 07:48 PM | #7 |
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You may as well forget the PDF exists. It's just a hassle to convert. You cannot do a conversion without errors. After you choose what software to convert the PDF, you then have to do an A/B compare the PDF to the conversion, fix that up and then fix the formatting. It's a lot of work for very little return.
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