It can also be good for text that has been copied and pasted from a PDF document or a website–just the text without any HTML code.įor this task I used MacDown, a standalone markdown editor. It’s useful if you are starting with plain text that has been converted from a scan and needs formatting. Markdown is a way of formatting text so it can later be exported to HTML. TextWrangler is free while BBedit is around $50. They can handle very large documents that other editors, like Brackets, will choke on. I prefer TextWrangler (free) and BBEdit because they have really good search and replace tools. I have used TextWrangler, BBEdit, Atom, Brackets, etc. I use search/replace to clean up extra spaces, extra returns, and unnecessary tags and styles. Once I have my source file, I use a text editor to clean it up. The scans must be of good quality or conversion to text will require too much fixing. Sometimes I scan the book and use Adobe Acrobat to turn the scanned letters into computer text (OCR or optical character recognition). These can be good starting points, but in my experience the text will always a fair amount of cleaning up. Unless the file has very clean HTML code it may be better to copy and paste the text directly into your editor from the web page or PDF rather than trying to fix the HTML. Sometimes I find the book as a PDF file, or as a webpage online. I start with a text file, and it can come from several sources. When Calibre opens, it should show the Calibre library, and a list of books, if there are any to display.
It is more of a reader than an editor, but it links to the editor. Note that the Calibre program is not the ebook editor. Images and metadata are also stored in the directory.Ī new book gets added to with the “Add books” link. The directory can contain various ebook formats such as azw3, mobi, and epub. Each book gets placed in its own directory. The ebook files from the Calibre application get placed into the Calibre Library at root of your user directory. I used Calibre because it’s a free download and I like how it works. I want an ebook that functions well and looks good on the Kindle.
Sometimes a book is available in PDF, but PDFs aren’t very fun to read. In some cases, either a Kindle version isn’t available for sale, or the Kindle version is so full of mistakes that I can’t stand to read it. I have some out-of-print books that I wanted to read on my Kindle.
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