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Kindle formatting?
Thanks to everyone who left comments about my post yesterday -- I decided to take the tree out since it makes sense to do it while the property is clear. He's going to find me a replacement that's of course a lot younger and smaller, but I told him I was at the end of my budget for this so I couldn't afford to get a bigger, more mature tree in (since it's going to be expensive to take it and the diseased camellia out). The bees will be very sad. (Also, sorry for the typo -- it was a *big* fungus, not a bug fungus. Believe me, if someone had said bug fungus to me, I would have been all 0.o about it.)
Woke up this morning with a horrid migraine, and couldn't even get out of bed without barfing for a few hours, so the poor kitties tried to get me up to feed them by alternately walking on me, sitting on me, giving me kisses, and plonking their butts in my face. Even the landscaping guys pounding and smashing away outside the window didn't provoke me into getting up. Now I'm trying to catch up on work but it's hard -- only one eye is working well.
I have a friend who has also been an editing client, who has self-published a book that's primarily for her friends and extended family. She wants to make it into an ebook for Kindles, but is having a lot of trouble formatting it for them, and I have never even seen Amazon's program for this, let alone know enough to help her out. I said that my friends list knows pretty much everything in the world and that many of them are Kindle users who format fiction for it, so I thought I'd ask for the collective wisdom of you all.
She's got it in a Word file (and a PDF, but I've seen what Kindles do with PDFs, so I'm not sure that's the answer), but she's by no means a high level Word user (doesn't really know much about the tools in the program). Is there some trick to getting it to work so she isn't tearing her hair out anymore (it's reduced her to tears and blubbering), or is there a useful tutorial for someone with bare-bones skills on making Kindle ebooks? I'd be incredible grateful if someone can point me in a direction so that I can help her. She and her hubby are very good friends who have always taken good care of me, and I'd love to be able to return some of the favor.
Woke up this morning with a horrid migraine, and couldn't even get out of bed without barfing for a few hours, so the poor kitties tried to get me up to feed them by alternately walking on me, sitting on me, giving me kisses, and plonking their butts in my face. Even the landscaping guys pounding and smashing away outside the window didn't provoke me into getting up. Now I'm trying to catch up on work but it's hard -- only one eye is working well.
I have a friend who has also been an editing client, who has self-published a book that's primarily for her friends and extended family. She wants to make it into an ebook for Kindles, but is having a lot of trouble formatting it for them, and I have never even seen Amazon's program for this, let alone know enough to help her out. I said that my friends list knows pretty much everything in the world and that many of them are Kindle users who format fiction for it, so I thought I'd ask for the collective wisdom of you all.
She's got it in a Word file (and a PDF, but I've seen what Kindles do with PDFs, so I'm not sure that's the answer), but she's by no means a high level Word user (doesn't really know much about the tools in the program). Is there some trick to getting it to work so she isn't tearing her hair out anymore (it's reduced her to tears and blubbering), or is there a useful tutorial for someone with bare-bones skills on making Kindle ebooks? I'd be incredible grateful if someone can point me in a direction so that I can help her. She and her hubby are very good friends who have always taken good care of me, and I'd love to be able to return some of the favor.