Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On Friday, August 16, 2013, jack wallen wrote:

> > On 14/08/2013, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > > display graphics, it's not very elegant. I've found that books with
> > > anything
> > >
> > > more than a stream of text create issues for the Kindle.
>
> Ultimately, in the end, you have to export (save as) to HTML anyway (to
> import into Calibre). Once you've done that, you can arrange your graphics
> as you see fit. But just taking a LibreOffice doc (with images) and
> getting into a format the meatgrinder of various ebook sites will accept
> (such as Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, Kobo, etc) will be a challenge.
>
> Wrong! Calibre does a great job of converting .odt to ePub without an
intermediate conversion to HTML.

> > >
> >
> > Thankfully there are a multitude of other devices available with the
> > better advantage of epub support.
> >
> > > I have to wonder if the LO user guides are simply too complex for
> > > elegant
> > > translation to e-reader format.
> >
> > They should be; if an academic article with maths and graphics (e.g.
> > http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jtc/2013/349870.epub) can be
> > created, the LO user guides should be possible.
> >
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