Re: Preparing for eBook of New Apple II User's Guide

[scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <benoit0123-1358677722@macgui.com>,
Benoit0123  <bgilon@free.fr> wrote:
>D Finnigan wrote:
>> I am reading over Amazon's documentation on how best to format a book for
>> the Kindle reader. I hope to have The New Apple II User's Guide ready for
>> Kindle eBook in February 2013.
>>
>If you find time to build an ePub format support for the new Apple guide
>afterwards, I will definitively be interested.
>I hope however that the Kindle native conversion will meet its audience so
>that you are encouraged to proceed with conversions to other formats.

It might be better to start with ePub and convert to Kindle format
(Mobipocket, basically) from there, as ePub is the more semantically-rich
format.  You can create and edit your book in Sigil and push it through
Calibre to get a Kindle-compatible file.  Both are free-as-in-speech and
will run on whatever you're using.

(Veering off on a slightly-related tangent, ePub is the primary format for
my book collection.  Having recently added an Android tablet to what had
previously been a stable of iDevices, it's a bit disappointing that the
Kindle apps for iOS and Android appear to be the only ones that keep
bookmarks, highlights, etc. synced between devices on different platforms. 
The Nook app doesn't (it apparently has problems with its iOS version), and
other ePub-compatible apps I tried tend to not do any better.  The best apps
tend to be either iOS-only (here, I've been happy with iBooks) or
Android-only.  I ended up knocking together a script that converts ePub
files to Mobipocket files and emails them to Amazon so the Kindle apps on my
devices can pick them up.  Book organization in the Kindle apps is nowhere
near as good as with iBooks, but I guess I'll deal with it until someone can
point me in a better direction.)

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