Conversion of .doc format to Kindle friendly by caliber

viksorion

Recently while uploading my Kindle I was trying to convert a .doc format book to Kindle friendly format. It repeatedly failed to do so. Then I converted it online and it was done without a hitch.
Was something wrong with my method or it's an inherent issue with caliber.
Pls help ........

Mousetrap

I've not used Calibre but found this information which might be useful:

Convert Microsoft Word documents
calibre can automatically convert .docx files created by Microsoft Word 2007 and newer. Just add the file to calibre and click convert (make sure you are running the latest version of calibre as support for .docx files is very new).

Note
There is a demo .docx file that demonstrates the capabilities of the calibre conversion engine. Just download it and convert it to EPUB or AZW3 to see what calibre can do.

calibre will automatically generate a Table of Contents based on headings if you mark your headings with the Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. styles in Microsoft Word. Open the output e-book in the calibre E-book viewer and click the Table of Contents button to view the generated Table of Contents.

Older .doc files

For older .doc files, you can save the document as HTML with Microsoft Word and then convert the resulting HTML file with calibre. When saving as HTML, be sure to use the “Save as Web Page, Filtered” option as this will produce clean HTML that will convert well. Note that Word produces really messy HTML, converting it can take a long time, so be patient. If you have a newer version of Word available, you can directly save it as docx as well.

Another alternative is to use the free OpenOffice. Open your .doc file in OpenOffice and save it in OpenOffice’s format .odt. calibre can directly convert .odt files.

Calibre Manual: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com ... ormat-specific-tips

cynic

I generally use the Send to Kindle by E-mail feature to upload documents to my Kindle. Works quite well for doc and pdf files.

Ananya10

What all Kindle books have you read????

Ananya10

EhisTbook is it? Can you give short sunnary

viksorion

Mousetrap 18-8-2018 11:59 AM
I've not used Calibre but found this information which might be useful:

Convert Microsoft Word docu ...

Thanks for that elaborate post.... Great. Will use next time I need it

Sin

By far Calibre has been most useful for me. Also emailing the book to Kindle ID (pas mentioned in one of the above posts) helps too.