Jo’s Comments (group member since Jan 24, 2013)

Jo’s comments from the Help with Book Formatting group.

Hi Guys,

It's been a long time since I posted in this group, but I thought some of you might be interested in my new eBook. You may have signed up to my eCourse some years ago, this eBook is an updated version of that, so lots of new content to go through.

Feel free to ask questions about it?

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Hey everyone, it's been a bit quiet on this group for a while.

I have a question... how do people cope with bullets when formatting a book?

I assume that to make them look exactly how they should look you need to use html/css, is there any other way of doing it?

I have a potential new client who has a book where the bullet points are very important, I either need a way of doing them myself or find someone who can do this so I can pass on the details to him!

Thanks,
Jo

I uploaded this presentation to Slideshare over the weekend, got some good comments about it too :)

http://www.slideshare.net/JoHarrison1...

Well after all that I think the reason it was happening was because my client had messed with the document I sent him, altering typo's etc... so something wasn't right. I ended up altering the html file and converting it from that and it worked ok.

I have just converted two more files and they worked fine! :)

Thanks JW, I am just going to give your ideas a go... Mobipocket hasn't been updated for some time, it's just strange it only started a few weeks ago.

I don't use track changes Ian, but I'll keep an eye out for that. :)

Does an ePub not work? Or is she able to download the Kindle app? I don't anything about the Nexus to be honest, but surely there must be a format that works.

Ok, the straight quotes worked, but found some other things Mobipocket isn't liking which is pretty baffling!

The em dash is showing a a capital D with a line through it, and ... is showing as an E with an accent over it, completely confused why it's doing this now and not before.

For some strange reason Mobipocket is now changing my apostrophes and speech marks to strange characters after conversion, it's only started happening in the last few weeks - other books already converted look fine.

Does anyone know what's causing this and how I can fix it? I haven't changed anything that could cause the problem.

I have tried importing Word doc and html, just about to change to plain quotes rather than curly to see if that works.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Just to say, the books I am trying to convert I have formatted in Word, reformatting in html (which I am sure would fix it) isn't possible, just don't have the time right now.

Thanks!

Hi All,

I just wanted to let you know I recently launch my eBook Marketing Mini-eCourse, it's free and for authors, and I know some of you might be interested. Here is the link - http://bit.ly/mini-ecourse

I would appreciate any feedback, good or bad!

Thanks,
Jo :)

Thanks!!

Oh right... not up to that part in my book yet either.

I'm doing something similar Ellie, although in Word... I was going to save the table as a GIF to see if that worked, apparently mainly text images should be saved as a GIF - not tested it yet!

Ah yes, it may cause issues with other languages... but if your books are turning out ok, then I don't see a problem with the way you're doing it Max. :)

Max wrote: "Ellie wrote: "Hi everyone

I do my writing and editing in Word and then strip out all of Word's extraneous code using Notepad ++. Then I add formatting (bold, paragraphs, etc) with the help of Guid..."

I always reformat a novel from scratch as you never know what could be lurking underneath which may cause an issue in conversion. There are ways of using find/replace to pinpoint all the italics/bold etc... so it's very easy to put them all back again. I would rather spend time doing this than having to work out what the underlying problem could be after conversion...

Hi All,

I have had an enquiry today, someone looking for Kindle 8 formatting, as I'm yet to be able to to do this, I have directed them to this group and told them about the Formatting Services thread.

Maybe if others have enquiries they are unable to handle, they could do the same, it would be a good way of getting referrals.

Thanks,
Jo

Thanks, I just downloaded a sample and it's exactly what I was looking for... Now purchased and sitting on my iMac ready to get going next week!

I know basic HTML/CSS, but not how to use it for eBooks... I'm actually quite looking forward to getting started!

Thanks Tim, definitely want to get into HTML this year, will take a look!

As I don't yet have my own book to share, I thought I would share my late Grandfather's book instead... he wrote it in 1995 and it's about his time as a prisoner of war in WWII.

Can anyone suggest any good books which provide real formatting help? I've downloaded a few in the past which haven't been that good to be honest.

If you have some which you recommend, please add them to the bookshelf!

I offer formatting of eBook and paperback books, as well as proofreading, I also have contacts who do cover design. I provide an eBook formatting template on my website for those who'd like to have a go themselves.

Email: jo@ebook-formatting.co.uk
Website: http://www.ebook-formatting.co.uk