Clicking on the format name will open the Calibre eBook previewer which will display the eBook as a reading device would see it. Once the conversion is completed, the new file format will appear in the list of formats for that book. The book conversion process will start and the job activity is shown in the bottom right-hand corner. Next click on “Tablet of Contents” and ensure that “Force use of auto-generated Table of Contents” is checked. This is good for many situations but the simplest solution is just to make every level 1 or 2 heading a chapter. The default rule is good but it tries to find keywords like “Chapter”. Click on “Structure Detection” and change the “Detect chapters at” field to //*. To create an eBook, click on “Convert books” and select the desired file format in the “Output format” drop down list in the top right-hand corner. Select the book in the main book list and click “Edit metadata”.
The metadata (information like the author’s name and the description etc) needs to be corrected. The document will be imported and appear in the main list of books. To add a new book to Calibre, click “Add books” and select the. Once you have you text formatted, ensure that it is saved in. Or you could use “Heading 1” for Preface, Part I, Part II etc and “Heading 2” for Chapter 1, Chapter 2 etc. So a simple book would use “Heading 1” for the Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and so on. The key here is to keep the document as simple as possible and use “Heading 1” and “Heading 2” for the chapter titles and any major divisions in the text. Once you have your text in OpenOffice, you need to format it for importing into Calibre.
This will work for formats like plain text, Rich Text Format (.rtf) and most Microsoft Word files. odt, start OpenOffice and see if it can be imported. If you have your text in another format other than. OpenOffice and LibreOffice are excellent tools for creating eBooks, not only are they fully featured open source word processors, but by default they save documents in the Open Document Format, a non proprietary file format that programs like Calibre can easily read.
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