Hi Everyone,
My name is Adem and I would first like to thank you for putting this help forum together, and am also hoping
that I will get the exact help I need.
I am building a charitable and inspiring self help site, using a mix of different plugins and a theme I have found
and edited, I am attempting to build a mini free library. Apart from the horrors of this final edition actually being
my 6th revision, due to my noobness, I am finally where I visioned my self to be.
The website which I dont want to reveal too much about, is targetting the younger generation, in the hope to
make reading cool again, I want to also inspire people through my own achievements online and to also prove
that you dont need to be a egg head to succeed online, so to clarify, your help would be truly amazing.
I have found approx 50 books which I can give away for free, I have the license for each one and have personally emailed all of them to confirm I have the rights to repackage the book, 48 turned out positive, the other 2 I could not get hold of, not to worry though.
The work load and man hours I am and still spending putting everything together, seems unreasonable, not that this is a complaint, I truly love working on this project, but I feel my progress is very slow and frustrating at times.
I have been using indesign to republish the pdf, then using Acrobatic X I convert the file to word, then save the word file inside Microsoft word to minimise the file size (dont know why this works, but it does), then finally to a plain Txt file.
This is just not good enough, I am literally on only my second book in 2 months time and cant see this getting any faster, actually its slowing me down using the system I have in place.
I copy the books content to Indesign, flow the book into a master text paragraph, then from there its all manual editing.
What I want to do, is take advantage of the many complex functions this software can handle, and to speed my work load up.
I want to be able to copy the files contents, then instead of me editing everything manually and the tedious task of setting up chapter headlines with a double lined break underneath, Drop Capitals at the start of each chapter paragraph, and so on.
I also would like to be able to set up proper contents pages, that link to each chapter, if possible.
I have a license with terms and conditions in place, my biggest fear is that I will need to revise this also, so after converting
each of the files, it would seem like a huge task for one man to have to do this all again, just to update the terms.
I just need a way I can copy the text over, and instead of manually styling everything, setup something that will do it for me, and using the contents page I setup, easily scroll or click down to the next chapter to style the next chapter header.
I also need to find a beautiful free font, where someone has had a positive experience creating ebooks with, the font I have been using works fine on the PDF, but after conversion to word, the font is not recognised, I dont understand why, but this is really beyond my understanding. So any recs for versatile book fonts would be great.
I am certainly not scared of putting in the work, If this thread feels like I am trying to avoid the hard labour, then dont feel this way, I just want to work smarter with the fine tools I have.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks In advance.
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