Ebooks can be fun, too. But creating them is still a bit tricky. I have been playing a bit around with the formats, and tried to convert a couple of books set in Word and PDF into kindle/mobi and epub (for iPad, Sony and everything else). It turns out this was pretty tricky without having Office/Word or InDesign installed — and I have neither at my private computers. Neither can I install any converters at my locked-down work computers. It turns out that all the cool converters I tried required one of those packages installed. No juice for Apple Work or Open Office users.
The solution was to use a little known shareware word processor called Atlantis, and use the Word-formatted originals (not PDF).
So step by step, on a Windows computer:
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