7/1/2023 0 Comments Jutoh images![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Conversion means simply that you take your Word document and run it through a programme that converts it to either mobi (Kindle) or epub (all the others) format. The list of books at the back of all my Kindle editions – updated every time a new book comes out.Įbook formatting in practice falls into two camps: conversion or compiling. You want to make those small changes and upload a new version to Amazon et al. Another scenario – despite paying over £300 for professional proofreading, it comes to your attention that there are a couple of typos in your book that escaped the net (this has happened to me with each of my books). You’ll have to pay someone else to make these changes, even though they are simple and take seconds. If you didn’t do the formatting or conversion yourself, you’re stuffed. You want – need! – to update the page at the back of your ebook to include the Amazon link to the new book, because readers who loved any one of your previous titles are going to want to know about the new one. Let’s fast forward to the day when you have three books published, and book number four is due out. Okay, you don’t have to do it all yourself (see ‘The Easy Way’ below), but if you want ultimate control over your ebook files you will need to tackle this. So it’s easier to handle this when your ‘master document’ is in Jutoh and you’re not having to continually reimport from a freshly edited word processor document.It’s been a while since I updated my series on self-publishing, so this week I’m back to it with the penultimate step before publication: formatting your ebook.įor all the talk of conversion programmes and formatting software and epub and mobi, there are really only two ways of turning your Word document into an ebook: the easy way or the hard way. In our experience, editing isn’t a one-off job – it’s hard to upload a perfect manuscript first time and your books will benefit from revisiting and making little improvements. Author and editor can use Jutoh as an exchange format, and after the initial edit, further corrections and updates can easily be made directly in Jutoh, enabling you to keep tight control over quality. Jutoh Plus has a very powerful ‘custom compile message’ feature which helps you track down hundreds of typos that you might easily miss during manual proofreading. You can add a text document under Scraps and drag it to the side of the window so you can see both your notes, and each chapter, as shown in the screenshot above. It’s also great for editors and proofreaders. Another benefit of writing in Jutoh is that at any point, you can easily hit Compile and Launch to see your work as an ebook – definitely a morale boost. My wife Harriet enjoys writing all her books with Jutoh, using Writer’s Café for planning. You can still export your project to a different word processor if you wish, using the OpenDocument configuration – the resulting ODT document can be opened in word processors such as Word and LibreOffice, and you can make PDFs from it.Įqually, you can write your book in another word processor and import it into Jutoh before editing it further. You can add images and have text flow to their left or right and Jutoh provides full support for tables and text boxes if you need them. Keyboard shortcuts are customisable so you can speed up editing, and you can add auto-replacements for words, phrases or punctuation. There’s search and replace, a word count, spell-checking, writing goals to encourage you, and you can add notes that won’t appear in the final book. Absolutely! Jutoh’s editor has a rich set of editing and formatting tools, and the list of chapters in the Organizer makes it a very convenient way to work. ![]()
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