E-Book Creation

with MobiPocket

A Quick Guide, My HTML Library

If starting with txt format, load into Textpad, copy and paste into MS Word
Remove paragraph marks from lines within paragraphs if necessary
- Check for double paragraph marks at end of each paragraph
- Use ^H to get the replace dialog box and pick Special at the bottom
- Remove white space between these double paragraph marks by replacing ^p^w^p with ^p^p
- Replace manual line break ^| with ^p^p
- Replace ^p^p with # or other unused symbol
- Remove interior single paragraph marks by replacing ^p with space
- Replace # with ^p
Set title, author, chapter headings and make corrections in MS Word
Save in doc format
Save in htm format
Edit htm code
Remove any code

Edit the htm format so first few lines are

   <HTML><HEAD ></HEAD>
   <BODY><IMG src="OpeningFigure.jpg"></img>
   <H1 ID="ref_1" >Book Title</H1>
   <H2 ID="ref_2" ><I>by Author's name</I></H2>
   <H2 ID="ref_3" ><A NAME="Chapter 1"></A>Chapter 1, Chapter Title</H2>

Notice that that ref_3 is Chapter 1 so the ref numbers are two larger than the chapter number

Change remaining chapter headings to above ref format
Search for each of the digits 1-9. Especially look for 1 when I or l is needed and scanned page numbers.
Search for ' ' and replace with ".
Search for " " which may be two paragraphs run together.
Search for .... run together and replace with spaces between.
Search for Id and replace with I'd with spaces on both sides.
For gaps between paragraphs and for the start and end of verse, put  & nbsp;
Put  and  pairs outside of  and  for more than one paragraph.
Use  to center a line.
Use <HR align="center" width="40%"> to add a horizontal line.
Use <BLOCKQUOTE> to indent both sides.
Make a copy of the htm file and use the copy since Mobipocket makes major changes to the file
With the web browser on the top half of the screen and the editor on the lower, search for the hyphen in the browser and when an m-dash is needed, search in the editor for a nearby word. Paste the m-dash (151). Sometimes the hyphen should be removed.
Drag the htm file onto the web browser so you can later copy the title and author into Mobipocket
Reduce size of this page and move it to bottom of screen so you can read these directions
Start Mobipocket
Click the New icon
Click default.opf and click OK
Copy book title from browser and paste into the first box
Copy author name from browser (omit the by) and paste into the second box
Click Browse and steer to Target Directory, click OK
Click Create >
For List of Files in the Publication, click Add File
Type an ID that is short for the book name
Click Browse and steer to the htm file
Highlight the htm file and click Open
Click OK
Click the Table Of Contents icon
Repeat to add cover.htm
Click Create a new Table of Contents
Click Finish
For First Level and Second Level Tags enter H1 and H2
Click Finish
The title, author, and chapter titles should all appear
Click Finish
If you want to include a cover graphic, click the CoverPage icon. (Skip this if you used the IMG code as shown above.)
Click the MetaData icon and check that the title and author are correct
Click the Publish icon
Click Publish for the Microsoft Readter LIT format
Click Next twice
Check that the target directory is correct and click Next third time
Click Finish
Close Mobipocket
Delete three files:
- the htm copy that Mobipocket worked on
- the toc.htm file and
- the opf file
Move the new lit book to My Library and double-click to start it.
Go to the Table of Contents and check the the chapter titles are active links. Click on the last chapter and go to the end of the book
Search the new book for > indicating incorrect numbers of  or 
If there are problems, go back to the original htm file, not the one Mobipocket worked on. After making corrections, make another copy of the htm file for Mobipocket to work on.

Revised: September 13, 2007