TXT does not maintain any styling so your EPUB will look remarkably bland if you use TXT as your source format, RTF retains better but still limited styling as well.
PDF files will convert fine but you may lose some images in the process if they are in the vector format. Using PDF, TXT, and RTF to convert to EPUB Just save the Word DOC file to an HTML or RTF file from within Word and you can then convert that RTF or HTML compatible file into EPUB. You’ll notice that the Word DOC format is missing from the above initial compatible format list, but this is not a problem. Converting PDF, HTML, Word DOC, etc to EPUBĬalibre supports EPUB conversion from the following formats without any modification: CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC**, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, TCR, TXT. Remember that the Amazon Kindle prefers MOBI but using the same process as above you can convert to Kindle formats easily. EPUB is also the standard format you’ll download when you receive a digital book on the aforementioned devices, it is the accepted standard for publishers and conversion houses for digital book distribution and sales.
If you have any intention on self publishing, or you just want to read a book on your iPad, iPhone, Nook, or Android, EPUB is the best possible format. Locate this newly created EPUB file, which will be named something like “Name-of-book.epub” and you are finished.By default this is set to “~/Calibre Library/” in Mac OS X and “\My Documents\Calibre Library” in Windows. Conversion is usually pretty quick and the newly converted EPUB book will be placed into the Calibre Library folder that you setup when you first opened the program.When you are finished making these changes, double check that the Output format is set to EPUB and then click the “OK” button to start the conversion On this conversion screen, you can adjust the table of contents, metadata, author name, publisher, comments, and change the ebooks cover image.Now you will want to convert this open file to EPUB, click on the Book icon with the recycle arrows on it.In this “Open Book” dialogue, you’ll want to select ‘All files’ to make it easy on yourself when finding your file to be converted to EPUB.Open Calibre, make note of the “Calibre Library” folder it sets, and open the file you want to convert to EPUB format – the interface is a little unusual but look for the Book icon in the upper left toolbar with a + on it.Download Calibre (it’s free) for whatever OS you will use it on.It’s open source (meaning free) and cross platform compatible with WIndows, Mac OS X, and Linux clients available to download and use. For the purpose of this conversion walkthrough, we are going to use a free application called Calibre.
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