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Creating An Ebook

This document provides information about creating and reading ebooks, including: - Tools for converting documents to ebook formats like EPUB, including using online services or ebook writing software. - Preparing Word or Google Docs manuscripts for conversion by using styles for formatting instead of manual formatting. - Recommending the free and open-source Calibre software for reading, organizing, and converting ebooks on desktop computers across different operating systems. - Other options for reading ebooks on computers include using the Microsoft Edge browser or dedicated ebook reading apps.

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Creating An Ebook

This document provides information about creating and reading ebooks, including: - Tools for converting documents to ebook formats like EPUB, including using online services or ebook writing software. - Preparing Word or Google Docs manuscripts for conversion by using styles for formatting instead of manual formatting. - Recommending the free and open-source Calibre software for reading, organizing, and converting ebooks on desktop computers across different operating systems. - Other options for reading ebooks on computers include using the Microsoft Edge browser or dedicated ebook reading apps.

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Creating an ebook
If you have written a book and would like to distribute it in major stores, you’ll have to create an ebook.
There are several ways of doing it: you can convert a book yourself in the cloud, on your laptop using a
book editor, or hire somebody to do the conversion.

If you write and edit your book in Word (or another document processor), you’ll have to prepare the
manuscript for ebook conversion. This is true if you entrust a professional, but is increasingly so if you
decide to convert your ebook yourself. See here for the costs to publish a book. Microsoft Word and
Google Docs, however, use an entirely different system of styling and formatting a book than ebook editors:
if the two system clashes, it can result in pain, sweat and long hours of troubleshooting.

The most important advice we can give you is actually the advice of the US Navy. The KISS
principle (Keep it simple, stupid!) is one of the main principles of ebook formatting. As the ebook reader
apps and devices strip the books from most formatting, there is hardly a reason for taking hours selecting
different fonts and colours. There is a fair chance that it won’t be displayed anyway. Use styles for
formatting, especially headings:  these will be used to create your table of contents later. There is no need
to manually add a table of contents with page numbers – page numbers are uninterpretable in case of an
epub.

Check out our ebook writing apps masterpost for advice on choosing the best paid and free ebook
conversion software and ebook editors.
6. Opening and reading ebooks
If you don’t own an e-reader, you can still have the whole ereading experience. There are plenty of apps
letting you buy, organize, borrow, lend and – most importantly – read ebooks.

Reading ebooks on PC or laptop (Windows and Mac)


New Windows computers come with a built-in solution for opening ebooks: the Microsoft Edge browser is
set as default for opening epub files. While the way it displays it is by no means pretty, it is certainly legible.
By all means the most popular reader software to open, read, organise and convert (for private use)
ebooks on a laptop or desktop computer is Calibre. Calibre is the non-profit love child of Kovid Goyal and
is an ebook managing must-have. It is thanks to Calibre that my ebook library is much better organised
than my physical. It works literally on any platform: Mac, Linux and Windows. Calibre does not only work as
an ebook reader, but converts everything to everything, has a code-based editor and is excellent at
metadata manager. It can also send books to the ebook reader, even via email to Kindle. I had great use of
this functionality when I worked as a beta-reader: it made converting word documents for private use a
child’s play.

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