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Topic ID: 1361
Message ID: 11
#11, RE: All Eyrie .TXT converted to .HTML
Posted by JeanneHedge on Jun-24-15 at 06:17 PM
In response to message #10
>Please do post. How did you convert? Did you go straight from .TXT to
>.MOBI?

Some stories required little re-formatting (I don't like hard breaks in the middle of a sentence). For those, I loaded the TXT into Word, got it looking how I wanted it to (italics, etc), then Save As "Web Page, Filtered". That creates a htm file, which I loaded into Calibre to generate the MOBI. For the most recent HTML stories, those go pretty much straight into Calibre.

As for covers, I don't like the generic covers Calibre does either, so pretty much everything got a custom cover via Calibre's "Generate Cover" option before converting to MOBI. The covers have images on them. I try to find something that has to do with the story, or the mood of the story. For series I've gone to EPU's series pages and used the main images as part of the covers of those stories to tie them together. If there was a Bacon Comics cover for a story, that was usually used as the MOBI's cover.


Jeanne


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