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HTML(HyperText Markup Lanuage) is the standard markup language to create web page while Mobi is a file format created by Mobipocket but now also adopted by Amazon Kindle Readers. You may need to convert HTML to Mobi when you want to read files saved from wabpage on your kindle devices just like reading other ebooks instead of reading them in the browser. Or you have written your own ebooks with HTML format and want to share them with your family and friends who own the popular kindle devices.
DeDRM works on books for:
- E-ink Kindles,
- older versions of Kindle for PC or Mac,
- NetGalley in Adobe Digital Editions (ADE).
It requires workarounds for:
- Kindle Paperwhite: Instead of downloading books to the paperwhite as normal, instead choose that Paperwhite for "download & transfer via USB".
My wife let her Kindle Paper White's battery get so low that the screen froze. Last night she put it on charge and this morning it still had a frozen screen and it hadn't charged. Here's what you need to do if it happens to you. Fasten it to your computer. Your computer will not recognize it. Hard-boot the Kindle by holding the power button down for 20 seconds or more. Nothing appears to happen. Leave things as they are for an hour or so and it will then tell you that it is charging (with a never-seen-before screen). Again, your computer still won't recognize the fact that it's fastened to it. Leave things alone! Eventually, the Kindle will shut down properly, it will reboot, your computer will recognize it and it will start to charge normally. You don't need to "eject" it from your computer, just leave it alone and it will charge fully and then you can use it. When the battery gets SO low, it's a game of patience and I suspect the same is true of other stubborn frozen screen situations.
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We can convert almost anything:
- Text
- Word
- PDFs
- Open Office Writer
- Libre Office
- Pages (Mac)
- WordPerfect
- InDesign Files
--into:
- MOBI (For Amazon Kindle)
- ePUB (for iPad, iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony eReader) and KoboBooks, and,
- ePUB, Smashwords-specific
- PDF for print on demand
If You Gave Us a PDF
We Scan your PDF
So, how do we convert your PDF? 95% of the time, after we try a few things, we end up running OCR software (Optical Character Recognition) on it. Yes, just as if it were a print book. Believe it or not, this is faster and less expensive for you than if we use Adobe’s tools to “export to Word” or “export to HTML.” (If you've seen these tools, or those online "convert your file" websites, before you invest your time or money, please see our article here in the FAQ on that topic: There Is No Magic Way to Convert a PDF to eBook Form. We try this, of course, on every book, to see if we can save the client money. But usually, OCR is the best way, and produces the cleanest Word output.
Then we run comparison software which checks every single character in the output against every single character in your original PDF. Our accuracy is 99.95%, guaranteed. No conversion is ever 100%. This is one of the reasons that every client gets a review copy, to check. If we make errors in the conversion, we fix them at no charge to you. //
Yes, we know that you’ve probably seen Internet websites and ads on Google saying “Convert your PDF to Word Now!” or other such promises. Mostly, this is snake-oil. We have been doing this for four years, and we have never found an “easy" way to convert PDF's to HTML to make an eBook. We’ve never even found a good way to make a clean Word file from PDF, at least, not with "push-button magic."
PDF, as a format, is inimical to eBooks/HTML. They are 180º different. PDF cares about what something looks like--not what it is. HTML/eBooks care about what something is, first, and what it looks like, second. I have an article about (some of) the problems, using PDF, here: http://www.booknook.biz/ebook-conversion-basics/ebooks-made-from-pdf/#378 . It doesn't remotely cover everything, but it tries to explain some of the problems.
Um...I guess, if you cannot afford a professional, your only route is to use a program like Calibre, to convert it to Word, and then, from there, clean the entire file. It's a lengthy and detailed process, but it's doable. Do you know how to use Styles and Headings, Tammy? If you don't, then, to be honest, you're kind of fighting an uphill battle. You should go here: https://shaunakelly.com/topic/word/concepts.html and start at the very beginning. Work your way through that page. All the way to the bottom. When you're done with those (I know it looks intimidating, but it won't take you more than an hour), go here: https://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/tipsonstyles.html and then, work your way through 1 and 2, on that page. Then go here: https://shaunakelly.com/topic/word/numbering.html , and do this one, at the bottom: https://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/usebuiltinheadingstyles.html .
Those will give you the fundamental basics that you need, to successfully clean up a Word file, and restyle it, using STYLES and HEADINGS, so that you can in turn make a successfully-formatted eBook. There aren't any shortcuts to this. People will tell you that there are--and they know not of what they speak. Doing this is realistically the only way to get your file from PDF to a competently-done ebook, if you have to DIY.
Hope that helps!
About eBook Formats
One of the questions that we are often asked is, "what is the best eBook format for Kindle? I'm not always sure what question I'm being asked. Is the person asking to find out what file format they should upload to Amazon? Are they asking what's the best way to make a book for the Amazon-Kindle ecosystem? Really, there are only two eBook formats that are still remaining in the USA, and, when you look around, in the world. Those formats are:
- ePUB: which stands for ePUBlication (clever, eh?), which is used by B&N, iBooks, Sony, KoboBooks, and Google, and,
- MOBI format, which is the preferred Kindle file format.
If you've Googled, you've likely seen all sorts of claims, ranging from some folks telling you that you can put an ePUB on Kindle, to the idea that using Word is the best "Kindle eBook format." The bottom line is, the files that Amazon sells to its readers are, by and large, a single file format, called "MOBI."