If this isn't worth worrying about, how do you 'design' your ebooks, what factors go into that, and what constitutes a 'beautiful' ebook as I've heard the term bantered about? Is there some list of ebook design criteria that should be followed? Calibre is not very user friendly, for sure. When I read, I normally don't pay much attention to it unless the font is annoying me, then I change it. I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble - do most folks want/use their own fonts for reading ebooks, and do most ebook readers for epub/mobi use user fonts by default. I'm windows, not mac, so Vellum isn't an option. I do make sure the fonts are installed in my system, embedded in the Word doc, and installed in Calibre. The problem I've had is that the books look great in MS Word, and come out great when I upload them to CreateSpace for the paperbacks, but I can't seem to get the same heading/body fonts when I create my ebook by uploading to KDP or using Calibre. Their tech support has been pretty horrible, but that's another issue.
#Jutoh make styles template series
He has an author series (Asimov, Hemingway, etc) and some nicely formatted templates for different genres and for MS Word, InDesign, etc. I took advantage of a discount at Joel Friedlander's book design template site to get a nice two-way (print/ebook) series template to use for all of my sci-fi series books. I've seen comments here from folks who create their ebooks using Vellum, Calibre, etc.
0 kommentar(er)
