Amazon's Format Conversion
When using the Kindle Personal Document Service to convert formats, you can have the converted files sent to your Kindle wirelessly for a delivery fee or have them sent to an email address for free and then transfer them to the Kindle via USB or have them delivered via WiFi for the newer models.
When using the Kindle Personal Document Service to convert formats, you can have the converted files sent to your Kindle wirelessly for a delivery fee or have them sent to an email address for free and then transfer them to the Kindle via USB or have them delivered via WiFi for the newer models.
Amazon will convert and wirelessly deliver the following format types:
- Microsoft Word (.DOC) and (.DOCX)
- Structured HTML (.HTML) and (.HTM)
- Rich Text Format (.RTF)
- PDF (.PDF)
- Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP
To make converting multiple files easier, the above formats can be packaged into a single ZIP file and sent to the Kindle conversion service.
Setting Up the Kindle Conversion Service
Go to Amazon’s Manage Your Kindle page and sign-in to your Amazon account. Then click on “Edit Info” under the Kindle section. Change the Kindle email address to whatever you want or leave it as is—then memorize it or write it down, save changes, and close the pop-up.
Paid Delivery: If you want to pay to have the converted documents delivered to your Kindle wirelessly via Whispernet, scroll down to the section labeled “Your Kindle Approved E-mail List”. Add the email address from the previous step to your Kindle’s whitelist, (your-choice)@kindle.com.
The delivery fee is 15 cents per MB in the US and 99 cents per MB outside the US. A typical ebook ranges from 1/3 to 3/4 of a MB.
Free Delivery: To avoid wireless delivery charges, you can have the converted documents delivered to your primary email address to add to your Kindle via USB cable, or have them delivered to a Kindle with WiFi so that you don’t get charged a delivery fee for using the 3G wireless. Just send the files to this address instead of the paid delivery one shown above, (your-choice)@free.kindle.com.
If you are having trouble with any of this, see Amazon’s format conversion help page
Instruction to convert kindle Format ☆
1. Open your document in a word processor such as Microsoft Word or Apple Pages.
2. Remove any layout or complex formatting. Stick with simple formatting options such as headings, bold, italics, underlining, bullet points and images without complex text-wrapping options. Complex formatting may not be preserved after conversion, as ebook formats are optimized for text -- think of a novel, not a magazine. Documents that are highly formatted should be formatted as an Adobe PDF rather than an ebook.
3. Export your document directly to the ePub ebook format if your word processor supports it. Apple's Pages supports ePub export starting with Pages '09. Microsoft Office does not natively support ePub export at time of publication.
4. Export your document to HTML format if your word processor does not support ePub export. In Microsoft Word, open the "Save As..." sub-menu under the "File" menu; select the "Web Page or Rich-text Format" option from this menu.
5. Select the "Web Page (.htm)" option from the drop-down menu in the Save As dialog box. Note the location you save the HTML document.
6. Download and install Calibre, cross-platform software for converting HTML documents to ePub ebook format. Alternatives to Calibre include software such as 2EPUB and online conversion services such as Book Glutton (links in Resources).
7. Open Calibre and click the "Add Books" button on the main toolbar. Select the document that you converted to HTML.
8. Select your book from the list and click the "Convert" button. Select "EPUB" from the "Output format" drop-down menu and enter title and author information.
Step-by-Step Instruction.
Conversion of HTML files
The first thing you'll need to do it enter your settings for Look & Feel.
Second is your Page Setup. This is where you select your device and set your page margins.
Third is Structure Detection which is where you enter your Table of Contents settings.
Preparing HTML for Conversion
Once you have your settings in place it's time to prepare your HTML file to convert to Epub or Mobipocket format.
The cleaner your HTML is the easier it'll be to convert your document and experience fewer problems.
After you have cleaned your Word Doc or RTF and you convert the file to HTML it is time to open your HTML in Wordpad or Notepad++ or Notepad, basically you'll need to use one of these programs to view the source code of your HTML document.
I prefer Wordpad to edit my HTML code so that's what I'm using in this tutorial.
Right click on the document and choose which program to open it in and select Wordpad.
Once your HTML file is opened it is time to add your chapter tags <h2> to everything you'd like added to your Table of Contents.
<h2>Chapter One</h2><h2>Author Notes:</h2>and etc...
Calibre can detect and add those tagged chapters to the Table of Contents if you have gone through the steps and added //h:h2 to your chapter detection.
This is also when you would want to check to make sure your images embedded correctly.
If you plan on centering the images add this code you'll have to use. Epub won't recognize any other css code.
<div style="text-align:center">
<img>
</div>
If your doc/rtf file was well made then you won't have to go through and search for <br> tags and replace those with <p>. Calibre automatically indents <p> tags. It does not indent <br>. Having said that it does not hurt to check for stray <br> tags or to clear out any other code that isn't <em>, <I>, <strong>, <b>, <p>, and ect...
Something to watch out for if you have multiple paragraphs using <strong> or <em> make sure the beginning of the paragraph starts with your <em> or <strong> tag. In web browsers if you forget to close a <em> tag all the rest of the text in the browser will remain <em> until it hits a closing </em> tag. That is not the case in Calibre. Calibre counts </p> as a closing tag for all formatting. Check to make sure your doc to html converting is adding your bold and italics tags at the beginning of your paragraphs.
Each conversion program has it's own coding that it adds and I use Microsoft Word Macros to fix/clean the HTML or to code my Chapter Headers with <h2>.
It is worth the time to explore Microsoft Word 2007 and learn how to create your own macros.
Once your HTML is ready, add it to Calibre.
Then highlight the story and click the button Convert E-Books:
Then , You'll get a box like this and this is where you'd add the author name, title, novel summary, book cover, and etc...
After this go to Look and Feel:
This is where you can modify your Extra CSS or font size. Once you hit OK Calibre will convert your ebook for you. From there you can download or transfer the file to your device. I normally open it in Calibre Viewer to check my Table of Contents and scan through the ebook for obvious errors like from page 20-100 all the paragraphs are centered. If your HTML source file has an unenclosed center tag that would mess up the text. Or if your header tag isn't closed properly all the paragraphs afterwards will stay bolded.
If you still do not undertand how to convert,
This is video will help you to understand how to convert text file/PDF into ebook or ipad.
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