My Camino Journal was recently approved in Kindle Books so I decided to see if I could put it in kindle Select (3 months only with Kindle) but I think that only applies to eBooks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’d recently come across Draft2Digital and thought I’d use that as the medium to publish it elsewhere. DUH!!!!!I’ve just realised that is for eBooks , not Paperbacks and Hardbacks. I’ve just spent a few hours trying to do a book conversion from PDF to ePub but the formatting goes crazy, so that is not the solution I was looking for. Wrong content on wrong platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I haven’t explored that avenue yet. For the moment I wont. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trying to convert from PDF online to ePUB was a bit of a bugger, some of the images went nuts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I tried PDF to Word and ended up with a 7mb file and it takes ages for Word to load, but my brief look at the result (there was then a lightning storm and screen started to go funny so I shut down computer)<\/em> it looked ok on the first couple of pages. I’m trying to reopen it now to see if it will work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I then used Kindle Create (or Preview) and it took the .PDF and converted it into a KPF file which is a Kindle format, but not the eReader format which is .KFX (none of these formats are easy to remember). <\/p>\n\n\n\n I then tried a few options online and a Download a special program that just did Kindle to ePub (that was just telling me to buy all the time so never got it to work and uninstalled it<\/em>) . <\/p>\n\n\n\n I then thought about Calibre and I’d used it a lot in the past, so decided to download that as I thought that I’d most probably be doing things with file conversion in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My first install of Calibre was not with admin rights and it wouldn’t convert anything, and looking at the end there were no permissions for using some folders. So I uninstalled and reinstalled and then it started to convert (at least it did not just jump up with error straight away<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Also I needed some KFX input and output plugins and after I’d installed those the install process went and created something. It still looked rubbish in ePub but at least there was a conversion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So as there was minimal text and it was mainly graphics, this is not the type of book that is easily converted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After stuffing things up I loaded Revit 2 onto Draft2Digital. It was a reasonably straightforward process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’d started to load the AHK1 book but I think I’ll put that on Kindle select firs and see how it does there. can always add it to D2D later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n See below, I wasn’t able to upload it due to pages wrong size so I didn’t bother in the end as too much effort and platform not very effective to date ( 1Tuesday 19 July 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n A bit of a disaster of a day, didn’t do much really. Although, after trying to get Journal onto D2D I see that they are moving into paperbacks so signed up for that. Hopefully I can get on that and have a 2nd try at it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I did but it said formatting wrong, so I printed PDF to another Adobe file and made sure page setup was in one format. Still said different pages format so I didn’t take it further. Sales on D2D is zero still so although spread over other publishers no one finding the books there and no one following links I’ve added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I then tried uploading wrong book, AHK 1 that I’d decided I’d put on Kindle Select for exposure so in the end used Revit 2 and that loaded fine. The front is a little messy but OK. Frankly I didn’t pay too much attention I was a bit frustrated with the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some learning about book formats and issues surrounding them. 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