Formatting for Freedom from Frustrations - (almost) Phew!

For the first step in publishing our class eBook, I was tasked with the job of putting the eBook onto each class member's Kindle so that we could determine any issues to be resolved. For this step, I used Calibre, an eBook managing system. It was incredibly frustrating because this was my first time, but I was finally able to gather a basic knowledge of the program to produce a draft of the eBook. The next step will be to add more chapters into a second draft of the book. For the Design Editor, Lauren Sullivan, I have written some of the steps I discovered as I created the first draft.

Lauren, I tried my best to make sure this is clear, but you'll probably still need to figure a lot out on your own.

Before inputting the document into Calibre
Each chapter in Word or Google Docs:
Title - 18 pt font, centered, bold
Image - centered, about same size
Content - justified, 12 pt font (one space between paragraphs is fine, but make sure there aren't any tabs between); headings: underlined, 14 pt font, centered
Black font, Times New Roman
I sent everyone their chapters on the Google drive so everyone should be able to shape their new chapters based on the formatting there.
Lauren, you'll want to copy and paste each chapter into one document so that you can load that one document into Calibre.

Actually putting the eBook together:
Open Calibre
Click "Add books" in top left corner
Select Word Document (whatever you've titled the book)
1. Once it's download into Calibre, right click and select "Edit Metadata" then "Edit Metadata Individually"
- To Change Cover, select Browse and upload picture from your computer
- Change authors and titles at top
-Select OK when finished

2. It'll take you back to your Calibre Library
- right click again on the book and select "Convert Books" > "Convert Individually"
- it'll open a new window. In top right corner, change output format to EPUB
- on left side select "Table of Contents" - click box that says "Manually fine-tune the ToC after conversion is completed
- on left side select "Structure Detection" - change "chapter mark" to both
- click okay and it will convert and apply the changes you selected

3. Back at the library, right click on the book and select "edit book"
- On the left side, it will say "Text" and under it there is a link that says "index.html" - double click on index and the book will show
- Once the book is open, go to the bottom right side and select the paper airplane looking thing. This will enable you to break up the chapters so you don't have to keep scrolling down to edit separate chapters.
- When you hit the paper airplane looking thing, you move your mouse over the book and you'll see a green line. Click where you want the page to be broken up (typically, right before the beginning of a new chapter). Go through the whole document doing this and you'll see on the left side there are now more "index" links. Each time you have to select the paper airplane thing.
-just go through each one to make sure that the formatting is all the same. It should be if you've got everything the correct way in the word document

4. Here's where it gets complicated..But maybe you can figure it out!
-I feel like I've tried everything to get the chapters to start on their own page, but I can't figure it out
-I also feel like I've tried everything to get the Table of Contents to show up..but here's how to do the Table of Contents so you can try and see if you can figure it out:

--First thing you need to do is go to each "index" or chapter you've just broken it up and make each of the titles h1. To do this highlight the html text of each chapter title.  Click the symbol that shows this "<>" and select h1. It will bold each one and change it up a little bit. It will look like this for each one:
<h1><p id="id_GoBack" class="chapter">Introduction: Imperial Amazon and the Rewilding of Literary Study</p></h1>

-- Next go to Tools>edit Table of Contents and select "generate ToC from major headings". Click okay. Then go to Tools>Table of Contents and select the in line option.

That's about as far as I got with the eBook. Make sure to click save, then exit the editing window. Right click on the book and select "Connect/Share". Email to selected recipients and just put everyone's Kindle email in there. I sent a copy to my Kindle a few times before I sent to everyone to make sure it looked okay. Good luck!