If you have reason to believe one of the other devices listed will be used more for your book, select that. – for epub to upload to Kobo select Kobo Reader. – for epub to upload at Barnes & Noble select Nook. Output profile: – for MOBI to upload at Amazon select Kindle.
Heuristic Processing – Again, you shouldn’t have to do anything with this section. If you find your final product (ebook) doesn’t turn out quite the way you would like it, you could come back here and tweak things. Look & Feel – If you have formatted your book in Word with style sheets, you don’t need to change anything in this section. Metadata should be as you want it to be, but you can make changes here if you like. – For Barnes & Noble and Kobi select “epub” – For Kindle/Amazon select “MOBI ” (for Kindle and MobiReader). Input format will be ZIP Output format (top right hand side of window) should be whatever file format you wish to create. How to Format an Ebook with Calibre Step 4: Convert books – No one but you will see how it is laid out. Publisher – fill in if you are using a publisher name.Ĭomments – Paste your back cover copy here. If you format your books in order, it will guess right.Ĭhange cover– “Browse” to your cover. Calibre will for future books try to guess which number each book is. Then go to right and enter correct number. Once you list a series here, it will be there for future use (in drop down). Series – fill this in if part of a series. Hit arrow beside this to fill in “Author sort” box. Hit arrow beside it to fill in “Title sort” box.Īuthor – put in name as you want the world to see it. Should be the title of the book and nothing else here. Title should be filled in, but you may need to edit it. How to Format an Ebook with Calibre Step 3: Edit Meta Data– Select the one you want and hit “open.” Ideally you are pulling in the Web Page Filtered HTML file you built using my earlier article : How To Format an Ebook starting with Microsoft Word. You can import books in a variety of ebook formats, as html or as a Word Doc. It will bring up a place where you can browse to the file you want.
How to Format an Ebook with Calibre Step 2: Add books– Download Calibre! It’s a free and easy to use tool to both manage and build ebooks. The first step in how to format an ebook with Calibre is simple.
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