Converting in Calibre

[sporky_rat]

Does anyone have a link or a walkthrough on how to get Calibre to convert from an html file to an epub? Every time I try it keeps giving me only about two pages of it.

Comments

[amalthia]

I made a tutorial some time ago...I hope it still somewhat helpful.

Ebook formatting tutorial

[purplecat]

I also wrote one: http://annariel.dreamwidth.org/46459.html

[purplecat]

Though if you've got as far as only getting a couple of pages I suspect you have a problem a basic tutorial won't help with. Is it one specific file you are having trouble with, or is it any attempt that does this?

[sporky_rat]

One particular file. I'm starting from a .html file which I might just throw up my hands and see about starting from a .rtf file and see if I get any better results.

[kate_nepveu]

Run it through Tidy HTML first? http://infohound.net/tidy/

[purplecat]

In my experience not all html files will convert properly into pubs using Calibre and not all epubs will display on all ebook readers. I've occasionally had success in hacking the html by hand, and sometimes by cutting and pasting the text I want by hand into Sigil (open source ebook authoring software) and generating an epub from that.

However if its not happening automatically its worth stopping to work out how badly you want this thing as an epub because it can involve a lot of time and stress....

[anyssia]

There's also http://dotepub.com/ where you can bookmarked their widget. Then, when you're on you web page, just click the bookmark and it asks if you want to convert with or without the images and that's it! You got your very own epub file in less than a minute and in just two clicks ;)

I've used it mainly to convert entries from livejournal and it works very well. The only thing is, it doesn't download the comments, so if you want to save a comment!fic, you still have to take a html file and convert it. (when this happens, I use Calibre's convert feature, but it's very rare for me, so...)