I always find it so much easier and faster to simply take a word processor file and turn it into
a clean HTML file the way I describe it — at least for novel - style books there is nothing that can beat that.
Not exact matches
Language
files are
cleaned, scalability tests are performed and adjustments are made, templates are
html validated.
They create much
cleaner and more compact
files than the conversion programs, and, yes, I've had people tell me they notice the difference (especially when reading on phones) when I've cheaped out and used a conversion program or someone who doesn't create the
HTML files by hand.
The book is filled with screenshots and step - by - step instructions, and covers styling the Word document, saving it as an
HTML file, and then
cleaning up the
HTML so it will present well in eReaders (an ePub
file is basically a bunch of
HTML and related
files).
I worked through the chapter that describes styling a Word
file and then
cleaning up the resulting
HTML, just to try out the process for myself.
We strip the
file back to a
clean html and then rebuild it using Kindle valid markup.
Even if you convert the document to
HTML before submitting the
file to KDP, unless you
clean it and tweak it, there can still be undesirable and sometimes even unpredictable behavior in the converted eBook.
VIDEO 8:
HTML Clean Up VIDEO 9 Final proof and validation of epub
file Converting EPUB to Kindle Digital Publishing in One Step