Sophie’s Comments (group member since Jan 24, 2013)

Sophie’s comments from the Help with Book Formatting group.

Jo wrote: "Sophie wrote: "Hi,

I write/publish eBooks.

I draft in Scrivener, but then I switch to MS Word for later versions of a book. The reason I mention Scrivener is because it does have eBook output fo..."

I find I get more control when using html. I'm forever double checking the word docs for Smashwords, because Word has a nasty habit of sticking in hidden bookmarks and stuff like that. Since I started my working life as a programmer, I'm also more than familiar with html.

Hi,

I write/publish eBooks.

I draft in Scrivener, but then I switch to MS Word for later versions of a book. The reason I mention Scrivener is because it does have eBook output formatting options when you plug in Kindlegen, but I've never used them in anger.

Microsoft Word is the s/w I use for my Smashwords submissions atm (Smashwords have a thorough style guide for MS Word docs, which is useful), although I am considering using their ePub submission options in the future, which means I'll use what I use for my Kindle generation, Mobipocket Creator. I use Mobipocket's html conversion option, since I find I can control things pretty precisely with html, so I pre-format the draft in Microsoft Word when doing search and replace and then move to PSPad, a text/code editor, to finish off and check my html when I have done the majority of the cut and paste of html tags.

If I need an epub from the .mobi file, I'll then use Calibre to do the conversion.