Comments for Helen Hanson

Comment on Amazon .mobi and .azw File Format v.s. .epub File Format – What’s the Difference? – Part 1 by Helen

Helen — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:06:56 +0000

Hi Ande,

Which steps in particular? Are you referring to John’s post?

I must say, I’m loathe to change my process in any wholesale way because I know it works. My only goal is to get my book published. Well, and sold

Helen

Comment on Amazon .mobi and .azw File Format v.s. .epub File Format – What’s the Difference? – Part 1 by Ande Anderson

Ande Anderson — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:28:38 +0000

I tried these steps and all Calibre succeeded in doing was trashing the TOC and losing the formatting of the text.

Comment on Formatting Your Ebook for Kindle: .Mobi File Format – The .HTML Component – Part 3 by Helen

Helen — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:59:21 +0000

Rachelle,

Thanks for all the helpful ideas! Once you get a working process for the files, it’s easy to repeat. The first time is always the hardest, eh?

Take care!

Comment on Formatting Your Ebook for Kindle: .Mobi File Format – The .HTML Component – Part 3 by Rachelle Ayala (@AyalaRachelle)

Rachelle Ayala (@AyalaRachelle) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:40:32 +0000

I have heard to ignore any errors and warnings like that. I also have the “No page map” found error and lots of warnings because I used MsoNormal paragraph. i.e. I didn’t change much from the Word doc.

As long as you get a good .mobi file and you run it through Calibre to add the TOC, and it looks good on Kindle for PC, Kindle Previewer and other devices, I think you’re fine.

Comment on Formatting Your Ebook for Kindle: .Mobi File Format – The .HTML Component – Part 3 by Rachelle Ayala (@AyalaRachelle)

Rachelle Ayala (@AyalaRachelle) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:38:30 +0000

Hi Helen, I found you don’t have to go in and type in the “id”. Just use MSFT Word and “Insert Bookmark”. It’ll automatically do the “name” attribute. Only “start” is needed, because I cannot for the life of me get “toc” to show up correctly on Kindle for PC. I gave up and used Calibre to generate another TOC. Of course, the opf file automatically tags the cover image when it is generated. So truly, the only bookmark I ended up needing was “start”.

I was avoiding to have to hand edit the mynovel.html file because I want to keep being able to change the Doc file and regenerate the HTML file without having to hand edit each time. I think I succeeded.

I have a new way I haven’t tried. But what you can do is use the “Insert Bookmark” feature and “tag” all your chapter headings inside of Word. Then you hand-craft your toc.ncx file once and as long as you don’t change the structure of your headings you should be fine to continue to regenerate the HTML file from the Word doc.

Comment on Formatting Your Ebook for Kindle: .Mobi File Format – The .HTML Component – Part 3 by Rachelle Ayala (@AyalaRachelle)

Rachelle Ayala (@AyalaRachelle) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:32:16 +0000

Nothing seemed to work for me either on Kindle for PC.

I finally ended up using separators >>>><<<< (plain ascii characters) I know. yucky!

By the way, thanks for your help. I posted on my blog my steps to generating the toc.ncx file instead of typing it by hand.

Rachelle

Comment on Formatting Your Ebook for Kindle: .Mobi File Format – The .HTML Component – Part 3 by Helen

Helen — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:03:30 +0000

Hi Rachellle,

Thanks for sharing your experiences. Sorry about pesky old WordPress. It’s rather fussy about displaying code

Take care!

Helen