I'm sure there are ways I could do it that would be quicker, but I like to be able to adjust the text's readability. Especially if I'm copying fics from Livejournal... some of my favourite authors only post here, and they often struggle with hinky formatting.
Squee!Book should take care of some of the formatting issues for you. I often use it to collect multiple part LJ fic, copy to a word document to make more formatting changes, then paste it back into the text box to create an ebook file.
Thanks! And yes, when I first joined LJ (and before I got the Nook) and started reading fic posted here I did something similar--copy/pasting into rtf and then converting to html after tweaking the formatting a bit. Never wanted to read the editable file since I might inadvertently wipe something out or make changes. Finding Calibre was wonderful for that since I no longer had to keep a 4th browser installed just for reading. (Yeah, that's a whole other story. lol)
Eventually, I'll go back and import those saved doc, rtf and htm pages into Calibre. (Rediscovering old favorites along the way, I'm sure.)
I do that too sometimes especially if it is an lj-only woo or when I find so many misspellings or such that I have to make minor edits in order to enjoy the reread... anyway not the point!
the point is that there's a plugin that lets calibre convert docx files so you can skip the rtf step completely. I recommend it highly!
as for the collections vs individual ebooks debate, I have found that having fewer overall files makes my Sony T1 run that smidgen faster since it doesn't have to index 10000 books. And having a book with 1000 pages is not appreciably slower on page turns than one with only a hundred. I have series collections, author collections, theme collections... the day I discovered epubmerge was a happy one indeed.
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I'm sure there are ways I could do it that would be quicker, but I like to be able to adjust the text's readability. Especially if I'm copying fics from Livejournal... some of my favourite authors only post here, and they often struggle with hinky formatting.
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Eventually, I'll go back and import those saved doc, rtf and htm pages into Calibre. (Rediscovering old favorites along the way, I'm sure.)
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the point is that there's a plugin that lets calibre convert docx files so you can skip the rtf step completely. I recommend it highly!
as for the collections vs individual ebooks debate, I have found that having fewer overall files makes my Sony T1 run that smidgen faster since it doesn't have to index 10000 books. And having a book with 1000 pages is not appreciably slower on page turns than one with only a hundred. I have series collections, author collections, theme collections... the day I discovered epubmerge was a happy one indeed.
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