ebook maker / converter free

[Rudegar]

can anybody recommend me a ebook converter / maker

got me a book as txt and i really would pref reading it as
ebook lit or at least pdf

i know i can just search google but there are soo many of them some are shareware some are comerical some are free.....

it's a jungle out there! :P

[icarusbop]

PErsonally I use mobipocket, for a couple of reasons..


It supports OEB (Non- protected books, so in 10 years time you will still be able to read them)
The reader is free (on the website it is advertised as a trial - this is for the pro version, install it anyway under the trial, aftrer the trial ends you can still use the software but some of the more complex functions are disabled -like autoscroll)
The reader will operate on palm or PPC - meaning I can share my books with my friends who have palm, rather than having to reformat them.
They also supply a publisher program for creating the books, this is free for home use.
It's not microsoft

go to www.mobipocket.com

[wfberg]

can anybody recommend me a ebook converter / maker

got me a book as txt and i really would pref reading it as
ebook lit or at least pdf


The reader I use is muBook from http://gowerpoint.com/.

It can handle .PDB, .PRC, .TXT, .RTF and .HTML as e-books, and display inline .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, .WMF (in RTF) or .BMP.

If you're starting from a TXT file, you don't gain much by converting it to an e-book format, unless you add niceties like an index.

Which book is it? If it's out of copyright, you may be able to get it from manybooks (http://www.manybooks.net/) in an e-book format (with index etc.).

[Rudegar]

well as to which book it is then no it's not a copyrighted book and it's not a book you'd find anywhere on the internet, somebody i know wrote it and all

i wanted to make it ebookish :P
because then when reading it i would be able to put bookmarks in and get a bit better more cleartypish font then the std notepad

as a rule just make it's easier and more easy to read it

[markimark]

well as to which book it is then no it's not a copyrighted book and it's not a book you'd find anywhere on the internet, somebody i know wrote it and all

i wanted to make it ebookish :P
because then when reading it i would be able to put bookmarks in and get a bit better more cleartypish font then the std notepad

as a rule just make it's easier and more easy to read it


Hi,
I use mobipocket too and I guess, it is a great program. You can convert your .txt - file with mobipocket publisher 3.0.
You don´t need the profressional version and you have the possibiblity to take indexes and a lot of more features of formatted textes and add your bookmarks and other features.
have fun!

[Rudegar]

well i of cause have that ms ebook reader and i have acrobat reader if at all possible i would pref not installing any more ebook readers on my xda2

will it be required ?

[markimark]

well i of cause have that ms ebook reader and i have acrobat reader if at all possible i would pref not installing any more ebook readers on my xda2

will it be required ?

I guess, you will be able to convert your text into pdf- or -lit - format. But the readers have less features, the files are much bigger - but it is possible...

First I had the microsoft reader and the pdf-reader too. Now I have only the mobipocket-reader...

[prowler]

can anybody recommend me a ebook converter / maker

got me a book as txt and i really would pref reading it as
ebook lit or at least pdf

i know i can just search google but there are soo many of them some are shareware some are comerical some are free.....

it's a jungle out there! :P

Microsoft have a plugin for MS word that will convert a document into eBook .lit format.

http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/rmr.asp

Or if you want a more professional program ReaderWorks Standard by Overdrive is also available.

http://www.overdrive.com/readerworks/

Cheers
prowler

[Rudegar]

prowler

thanks i already found that word plugin
and i suppose i could use it
but then i have to take the book to work
because at home i dont have word

[xda-rocks]

Have you tried PDFcreator?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

or

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

FREE for personal and commercial use! No watermarks! No Popup Web Ads!

[wfberg]

i wanted to make it ebookish :P
because then when reading it i would be able to put bookmarks in and get a bit better more cleartypish font then the std notepad

as a rule just make it's easier and more easy to read it

uBook will give you the choice of any font you like, with 3 different modes of anti-aliasing/alpha blending, multiple styles/backgrounds, font sizes/colors, columns, bookmarks, annotations, and it will even figure out headings etc. (for example convert CHAPTER 1 to a chapter heading). No conversion necessary. It just works.

Why lock yourself into some company's proprietary e-book format, when there's great, free, open source software that will read all sorts of formats, and offers a lot of options? If you're using an e-book reader that doesn't read .TXT files and can display them nicely, then you're cheating yourself.

[MuseOfLife]

You can also try PDF Printer (http://www.ronyasoft.com/products/pdf-printer/). It supports Vista.