I’ve had a couple of emails and comments asking about this post about Kindle Collections and Calibre. Unfortunately, due to changes in how Amazon has implemented Collections on its newer devices, from the Kindle Touch forward, any third party software used to manage your collections requires jailbreaking your Kindle. Jailbreaking ... more >
A couple of weeks ago, after this post about inserting the blurb at the front of an ebook, a reader emailed me asking about cleaning up PDF files when converting to ePub. Often there will be stray letters or numbers or headers that affect the output of an ebook. There ... more >
If you use ePub Split or convert PDFs to ePub or Mobi, many times a table of contents does not carry over. I like a TOC in electronic books because it helps me gauge where I am in a book and it helps me navigate. For some programs, it can ... more >
Two weeks ago we discussed adding plugins to crawl the internet for better covers. Today we’ll review how to add a blurb at the beginning of your book. Adding a blurb at the beginning allows you to immediately identify the contents of the book and maybe even remind yours why ... more >
With more and more box sets being sold, the aid of Calibre and its third party plugins has never been more valuable. Using Calibre and the third party plugin EPUB SPLIT, you can divide the box set into individual stories. The reason you would want to do this is for ... more >
The 99c price tag for these epic box sets of 8, 10, and 14 sets of novels is awesome. However, reading them on a digital device is suboptimal. You don’t get a very good idea of where you are in the novel based on page count or percentage or locations. ... more >