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Kindle formatting is a PITA. Why is there no e-book equivalent for FrontPage?
- joubert 17y agoSigil? Adobe InDesign?(http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishing/ http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishing/)
- jonknee 17y agoIt sounds like his problem was Word (and how he used it), not that formatting for Kindle is a PITA. He needed it in very basic HTML, hardly a PITA.
- icefox 17y ago"My first step toward creating Pixel Nation was simply to gather up all of my old columns, which meant copying and pasting them from the Web pages on Xconomy into a Word document. I would never have attempted this task before November 2009, when we added a single-page view option that lets you see an entire article on one page. Many of my columns are fairly long, so they get broken into two, three, or four pages on the site, and it would have taken forever to stitch them all together from these separate pages." I had to read this twice to make sure I really was reading it. His "method" of acquiring all his articles is browsing to each webpage and copy/pasting the text into Word. The rest of the article shows a similar level of technical expertise in the tools of his craft. I am flabbergasted that a writer would do that. Writers deal with text all day. Creating, editing, and managing the text files seem like pretty basic components of writing. Anyone know if this is normal for writers? Are they normally this incompetent with text manipulation and management?