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naomi_njw [1]
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Registered: 08-04-2001
Book for converting complex book to e-book format?
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Mon, 04-16-2012 - 2:33pm

I dread this task. My published book, It's Not Mental [2], is so complex with over 100 footnotes and references, many bulleted lists, indented quotes, and so many automatic MS Word formatting styles. I feel confident about converting simple book formats to e-books, but not this... howver, it must be done. :-(

I have been told about 3 good books on the topic, all by Mark Coker. Of the 3, I think the one I would need is the Style Guide [3]. All I could find was the Kindle version, and I really need a non-E-Book version. I don't own any Nook or Kindle, Smart Phone, etc.

I know HTML, and several formatting "leanguages", so thgose technicalities are not my problem. I know I will need to convert all the footnotes to hypertext. I don't need something so basic that all the terms must be explained. But I truly do need to know how to do bulleted lists manually with them still looking nice, since I am aware we cannot even leave the MS Word automatic lists in (all formatting must be stripped out. Sigh.)

Help?

  • Reply [4]

    www. It's Not Mental .com [5]



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    [2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982805209?ie=UTF8&tag=itsnome-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0982805209
    [3] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004XWJ7UK/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=itsnome-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B004XWJ7UK&adid=06YG1BZEN5ZY4WW008NJ
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    [5] http://www.itsnotmental.com/