Quick hi

[doranwen]

Just discovered this community--I'm surprised I didn't look sooner. I've already gotten involved in fanfiction conversion after getting an Astak EZ Reader Pocket Pro *last* summer. It handles epub best, so I started asking one of my older fanfic communities (Lois & Clark) if it would be possible to offer fics in epub and not just txt like their

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[elfwreck]

An ePub can have just as good a TOC as a PDF (possibly better, on some readers), but I'm fluent in PDF and not in ePub. Making a TOC for a PDF is a matter of seconds for me; making one in ePub involves figuring out settings I don't yet understand. (I gather it's not difficult; it's just something I don't know. I've been adding bookmarks to PDFs for over 10 years; I can almost do it in my sleep.)

I'm with you on the xhmtl... could learn; haven't bothered yet. (And while ePub supports tables, and I think mobi has some basic version of them, Smashwords doesn't. Sigh. Their Meatgrinder doesn't have a way to deal with xhtml directly; they convert from Word, which means tables would be GAAH all over the place so they just settle on "we don't support tables," which means they have to be images. Grr.)

I intend to re-install Calibre someday and figure out how to assign it a folder-spot that says CALIBRE-DONT-TOUCH (or probably just "CalibreLibr") so I leave it alone and it doesn't clutter up the My Documents folder. I spend too much time poking around through an explorer window to deal with dozens of author folders I'm not supposed to touch. I don't mind that it makes 'DO NOT TOUCH THIS' folders; I mind that it mixes them in with my normal stuff.