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September 27, 2015

Calibre + Kindle Collections

JaneEbooksCalibre / Kindle / kindle collections11 Comments

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 >

August 23, 2015

Calibre: PDFs to ePub Conversion Tips

JaneEbooksCalibre28 Comments

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 >

July 26, 2015

Creating a Table of Contents in Calibre

JaneEbooksCalibre3 Comments

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 >

July 19, 2015

Calibre: Adding a blurb to the front of a book

JaneEbooksCalibre7 Comments

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 >

June 28, 2015

Calibre: Adding more image sources

JaneEbooksCalibre6 Comments

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 >

Pocketbook app
April 13, 2014

Using ePub Split to create individual books from your collection of box sets

JaneEbooksbox set / Calibre / epub / tutorial30 Comments

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 >

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