![]() This method has produced three well formatted novels for me so far. I am by no means saying this is the best way to do things. I got the benefits of my lovely TOC that Sigil created, and even though I have no clue what magic exists inside of Calibre, running it through that program seemed to get rid of any other bugs the file had. So that is exactly what I did and…cue heavenly angels singing…it worked!!! I uploaded the new EPub file to the Amazon Previewer to convert it to Mobi, and that Mobi’s formatting and spacing were perfect. In other words, just run the file through the program and get a new EPub that hopefully had the remaining formatting issues stripped. I wondered, what would happen if I ran my EPub file through Calibre and just chose to “convert” it to an EPub file. And Calibre was apparently blacklisted by Amazon (still no clue why).īut then it hit me… Calibre can convert most file formats. I was stuck having an almost perfect conversion using Sigil but wasn’t completely happy with it. Aaaaghhhh…I was ready to pull my hair out. Hell? After doing some more research, I found out that Amazon will not accept Mobi files created by Calibre. Cue dramatic music…for when I tried to upload the Mobi to KDP, I kept getting error messages. Better yet…when I tested the Mobi out on my Kindle, it looked perfect. I decided to give it a try.Ĭalibre is very user friendly and the conversion process from EPub to Mobi was painless. So I researched and saw a lot of good things about the Calibre program. It looked better than when I just used the Word document, but still had some spacing issues. ![]() I tried this and still was not happy with the formatting. At this point, you can take your EPub file and again, try the conversion to Mobi. ![]() Sigil will then turn your document into an EPub. The advantages of Sigil include being able to create your Table of Contents and all of the links pretty quickly, plus you can do some fancier font work with your Chapter headings.Īfter ensuring I had a clean Word manuscript (and by that I mean no Tabs or wonky formatting), I took that document over to Sigil where I created my Table of Contents. I decided to move towards the tricky steps of using Sigil which is an HTML based program. However, after trying this numerous times, I found that I was not happy with the formatting and it didn’t look professional. This blog post will apply only to publishing to Amazon, however, because we will be working originally with an EPub file, you can use these instructions for any of the vendors that accept EPub.įirst, note that you can just upload your Word document directly to the Amazon Previewer and it will convert it to Mobi for you. I spent several hours figuring out a few different programs so I thought I would share my experience, as well as some basic formatting instructions I created. After the course, I was armed with enough knowledge to be dangerous but I was ready to navigate those waters. ![]() I took an awesome self-publishing course recently because I was too afraid to try the perilous waters of formatting my book.
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