Fun with the Christmas prezzie!

[barbarienne]

My very generous sister gave me a NOOK* Tablet for Christmas. I want to beta-read sksperry's latest, and so I thought it would be good to put it on the ereader and not print out the text as I usually do. This makes it hard to make detailed notes for little things such as misspellings, but I'm mostly trying to do an overview read

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[autopope]

[ Snip Word/Acrobat/InDesign ]

There's an easier way to do it.

Go download Calibre (it's free!). Save the MS as an RTF file. Import into Calibre, hit the "convert" button, select ePub output. Voila!

Free, and far easier to use than ACS. Calibre is also about the best ebook library manager I've found (cross-platform FTW). And although it doesn't grok DRM formats out of the box, there are plugins floating around the net ...

[dorianegray]

Yes, this is exactly what I was coming in to say! Calibre is utterly brilliant and will translate pretty much any e-reader format (and .rtf and .pdf) into any other.

[barbarienne]

That worked great! Thank you!

I love living in the future. :-)

[oracne]

I third Calibre!

[green_knight]

My solution was to get Pages.

I know other people have recommended Calibre - Pages isn't free, but it's relatively cheap, and it writes much better epub files; I've found it entirely hassle-free.

And I also like reading in iBooks. I haven't found a good way of getting annotations out, but the ability to mark text up in several colours is wonderful.

[ann_leckie]

I clicked to suggest Calibre, but I see others were before me. I use Calibre all the time. Works like a charm.

Now if someone would give me e-reading software that would allow me to export the file with any notes I make on it so I don't have to prop my ipad up next to the computer to make corrections, or so I can easily send the notes to someone else...

[ospreys_view]

If I'm anticipating lots of annotation on whatever I'm reading (such as work documents), I convert my files to PDF format and use iAnnotate on my IPad. It works well once you figure out the tool bar and will export the document complete with annotations. I haven't found anything that works well with MSWord documents yet.

[ann_leckie]

iAnnotate, huh? I'll check it out, thanks!