Create a perfect ePub or Mobi for Amazon Kindle with Sigil from Word
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- learn.robcubbon... Create a perfectly formatted ePub or Mobi for Amazon Kindle with Sigil from Microsoft Word
Stop Microsoft Word driving you mad! Get Sigil!
Areas covered: TOCs, HTML table of contents page, images, formatting, chapters, headings, links, getting rid of Microsoft Word crap.
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Brilliant!
I have taken a couple of your Udemy courses and I like your teaching style.
This tutorial comes at the perfect time for me because I recently offered to help an author convert their printed vanity published books into digital versions for Kindle and the iBook store. This has saved me a lot of time.
It should also be noted that Sigil is also available for Windows.
Thank you Rob!
Thank you, Stephen Britton - I'm glad you have liked the Udemy courses. This should be perfect for what you want to do for your client. Best of luck with it and let me know if you need any help.
Outstanding video. One of the most valuable 10 minute videos I've ever seen.
Thanks Rob! Bookmarking this one to watch this afternoon and looking forward to streamlining my publishing experience with your helpful advice.
Thanks for this excellent tutorial Rob it is really helpful. I've had Sigil for quite a while and it's good to know that it can be used to create Kindle books as this makes it a lot easier than the manual method I have used in the past.
To express my gratitude I purchased a couple of your books on Amazon. From Freelancer to Entrepreneur: Escaping work and finding happiness and How To Sell Video Courses Online: How I make $2000+ passive income every month.
I've read the Freelance To Entrepreneur book and I loved it, I was amazed at how the situation at your first job seemed to parallel what stage of my life I'm at now (and im sure many others also) and it really struck a cord with me and gave me food for thought.
Keep up the great work, I think I will enrol on one of your Udemy courses also.
+DLiberator78 thank you so much. I hope you enjoy the books and the courses. The book "How To Sell Video Courses Online: How I make $2000+ passive income every month" will be updated shortly - you bought the Kindle version, it'll update automatically. Yes, a lot of people get in touch with me to say how similar their story is. I hope I manage to help and / or inspire people to do something with online business and improve their lives accordingly. :) That's the idea anyway . Thanks
Thanks Rob, yes your book was definitely inspirational. I've had my own domain and a WorkPress website sitting idle to over 2 years it high time I stopped procrastinating and did something with it. You book has helped to give me the kick up the backside I needed. Many thanks.
An absolute gem of a video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks so much for taking the time to simplify your six months of hard work to get it right, for your fellow authors. Cheers mate. Much appreciated.
Hi Rob, thanks for taking time to share with us creative techniques to get Word docs converted to Sigil. Absolutely a timesaver for us.
+100
Rob, Thank you so much. Removing the Microsoft Word related markup immensely improved the result. And thanks for your cheat sheet of regular expressions. It made everything easy (and fast).
Thank you Sir. It is very useful.
Ive finally has a chance to finish my first short story. This formatting vid is going to help me out no end!
I know you avoided the cover here but is it still ok to add one for KDP? Books I have read actually put the cover as the first page in their kindle ebook.
what is much much easier and cleaner solution is to just format the text in markdown and then convert it to html, and paste that html into Sigil. That way no clutter is generated.
can you talk about this more?
Yes, please tell more, while it work well, with full page picture books?
Most concise, applicable video I've seen this year. Thanks for not wasting my time, as most other how-to videos do. Is your list of Regular Expressions available somewhere?
Glad it was helpful! Sorry, I don't have the list of Regular Expressions.
Brilliant! wonderful to see!
thank you !
You're welcome!
Old video but useful. Specially now that word can convert pdf to txt and the html to epub an the to mobi. Yeeah the wish of reading in kindle books that are just in pdf is my new way to success
The latest version does not show 'book view', only html stuff. Any solutions to us newbies here? Thanks!
Thank you very much for detailed tutorial, world class.
bsetiawany my pleasure
wonderful video Rob Cubbon . Do you know how to make different widths for the images? I have two - one needs to be the full width, the other doesn't. Right now they're both showing full width via your instructions. I'd love to be able to make that tweak.
Carey Green add a class to the narrower paragraphs, like:
and in the CSS put
.narrow {width: 75%;}
and experiment with that
Thanks Rob Cubbon
there is no book view in new version so now how to do the copy/paste the word text.. this is old video
Thank for you kind explanation.
Hi Rob,
Thanks for the amazing video. I am not able to fix the orphans and widows in my epub file. I found some code online for setting orphans and widows to 2. I played around but to no use. Do you know where to insert the code for orphan and widow settings, and what code to use? Would really appreciate!!
Your guess is as good as mine +Ahmad. Bear in mind that Kindle readers choose the font-size and type style and all devices have different widths so I don't think anyone bothers with widow and orphan settings on Kindles however, it is possible to control them in HTML so you could try if you really wanted to. I wouldn't bother.
Thank You a lot.... This was very helpful.
Please send me a link to buy that book there on bloging
Thank you +Action Prayer Mandate www.amazon.com/Build-Create-Products-Passive-Income-ebook/dp/B00LTWLSE0 here's the link
Just bought it.. keep up the good work.
Thank you so much! :)
Thank you
Great video. Helped me a lot. I really did not know that it is such hard work to actually create a clean kindle eBook. I am familiar with html etc. but for other people it must be extremly complicated.
I have a question: Once you enter your file in Sigil you start deleting all unnecessary html tags. There is also the possibility to paste your ebook as plain text (no html tags) into Sigil and then start formatting. It is just the other way round. What is your opinion on this?
I wouldn't write the book in Sigil
that's most to be each single ebook , or do you have any way to do it once and save process to the next other different projects .
I like how in the very moment you say you don't know how to pronounce Sigil a Google page appears with the phonetic spelling at 1:20 ;-)
Awesome video man. Thanks a lot!
I copied from word and pasted into sigil, exactly as you instructed, and it lost all the formatting.
Great video, thanks so much
I do picture books, and have a hard time doing them in word, i dont like doing pictures in word. Is there a easier program to use, that is picture friendly.
It really doesn't matter because, as I say in the video, you'll have to upload the images again for the ePub/Mobi anyway. I don't know what "hard time" you're having uploading images to Word so I can't help you sorry.
Why is everyone using mac and when they use sigil they have that veiw while mine only have code view...
As I commented before, the video was really really helpful. However, I have a question about the beginning of paragraphs. Some of them just stick to the left side of the page when I put on Sigil the way you taught, even if on the word file they had a space. Would you know why this is happening? Thanks a lot.
R. Wilcky If paragraphs have two different styles the HTML and CSS will show you why
How do I fix it? :/
hello Rob, thanks for this video! I am using Sigil now for the first time. I am using the version 0.9.6. I have searched through the menu, however I am not able to find the Validate tool... The Book view shows just the paragraphs that have no issues and I seem to have a lot, despite the fact that I have done the Regular expressions exchanges. Can you please help me where to find the validate tool? thanks a lot!
I helpful person just emailed me about this. (I don't do my own ePubs anymore). "The latest version of Sigil (0.9.7) has a separate plug-in for epub validation called Flightcrew. Whilst that does a good job, I would not advocate using that alone, especially if you intend to publish your ebook on Smashwords too. You can do a more thorough validation by downloading and installing ePubCheck from here: github.com/IDPF/epubcheck It's Java-based so you need a Java VM installed on your PC. Alternatively, you can upload your ePub file to validator.idpf.org/ and check it online. This validation is best to get past what author Stephanie Zia calls the 'Smashwords Police'. You must pass these tests to publish ebooks on the Apple platform (via Smashwords, that is)."
hello, thanks for this video.. just one question: why wouldn´t you add a cover for kindle? is it a wrong practice to add a cover from sigil if it´s for a kindle book? if so, why? thank you!
It's certainly not wrong to add the cover in the Kindle epub or Mobi file. In fact, I think most people do. I just don't know why? People see the cover on their devices and tap it to read, why do they need to see the cover again?
well thats true, i usually add it because the kindle previewer warns when you don´t. so i thought it was wrong not to add it.. i guess i should reconsider... thanks!
Don't forget that not all eBook readers show cover pictures to tap on when you choose a book. There are people like me who still have a Kindle 3 or other readers that show text links in the book collections (which I even prefer in terms of readability and use of space). So, yes, it makes sense to include the cover in the actual eBook file.
Thanks for the clip anyways, I didn't know Sigil has built-in regex search.
Sigil is very complex, meed months to learn.
]*> replace with [nothing]
replace with [nothing]
to
]*> replace with [nothing]
same result
thank you!
if have to setup it for every project , so it's to much job for just one thing and we could spending time in another thing , like writing something . we're in 2015 and each year that's gone all in the world turn to more and more fast , each year the time turn to more expensive , have to have a time to write something , but setup and publish most to be fast .
+Rodrigo Costa (rodricosta) i agree, i think
Wonderful advice (it seems), but......
My word document is a lot more complicated than yours, and 130,000 words long.
I copy-pasted it into Sigil, but then on trying to change from code view to page view I got an error message about not being able to compile or somesuch. After arduously fixing about 200 of such errors I was finally able to see some page view of the thing. I then started on fixing some validation errors.
But then I noticed that the text (130,000 words) was littered with hundreds of unwanted mangled index tags, such that if it should say just
"this sort of widget is best"
it instead says
"this sort of widget XE "widget" is best"
"The author XE "author" of this video XE "video" is Rob Cubbon XE "Cubbon" - like.
(and so on ad nauseam with every "indexed" word.
So after several hours I still have a pile of rubbish for a file.
Hmmm..........
Sigil is used by many people worldwide on documents longer than 130,000 words.
Couldn't you sort out issue with Regular Expressions?
Rule of using computers: if you are doing some task "ad nauseam" you are probably doing it the wrong way.
"Sigil is used by many people worldwide on documents longer than 130,000 words."
But maybe not so complicated with lots of figures and formatting? And without those indexing tags.
"Couldn't you sort out issue with Regular Expressions?"
I couldn't find any way of doing so. I tried many times to remove by various ways such as in this case XE "[^>]*" or XE "*" or XE "*" .
None of those sorts of things did anything (in either "normal" or "regex") except get a message that "no instances were removed". So unless someone else knows some secret formula I would have to go through my text manually removing several thousand of these things. And then there's the images and formatting which need more work too.
As the author and self-editor I'd prefer to spend less time goggling my own text but I don't know of anyone who I would know would do a competent job of this (without charging a small fortune).
If they are all XE "something" - then there is a way of doing it with RegEx.
I know someone who may be able to help you. Email me on rob at robcubbon.com
Thanks but ahah.... I've noticed something.
When I open the mobi in either kindle previewer (still works in xp by the way!) or my paperwhite, then those XE tags (or their "fossils") are not visible. So no need to remove them anyway (gasp of relief!).
However, I see that my paragraphs have all been converted from indented into the html default line-separated. I guess I now have to (1) convert all my p tags to something like then css that class as indented, then (2) go through by hand setting the intended non-standard paras (a lot, groan!) to some other css class or whatever.
And work out how to make all the 37 figures reappear! (I suspect the systems don't like the border and align tags.)
Maybe I will also have to add a million tags too?
Rob, you are a tech GENIUS! Thank you * infinity for saving my life with your helpful video.(I was really frustrated and ready to freak out.) Watching it allowed me the expertise to get my ebook coded, formatted correctly, and uploaded successfully at KDP.amazon.com the first time. Two thumbs way up, you rock!
It's always nice to save someone's life ;) Diana Westberg thank you!