O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers. In the left-hand panel, locate Preferred Output Format and select MOBI from the drop-down menu. Get Publishing E-Books For Dummies now with the O’Reilly learning platform. Open Calibre and go to Preferences > Interface > Behavior. If you use Word, you have no option to save your manuscript as an EPUB file instead, you save it as an HTML file and then convert it to both EPUB and MOBI by using another piece of software. The not-so-good news is that it takes a few steps to convert a Microsoft Word document into MOBI and EPUB files â it isnât quite as simple as PDF conversion (as described in Chapter 6).Ĭertain software programs, such as Adobe InDesign, allow you to save files in EPUB format, though you still need to use other software for the MOBI conversion. The good news is that after your manuscript is ready to convert into MOBI format, you can simply convert it to EPUB format, too. Both must be specified as the first two arguments to the command. inputfile is the input and outputfile is the output. The two most common file types that e-readers use are MOBI (for the Kindle and for MobiPocket reader software) and EPUB (for everything else). ebook-convert calibre 6.14.1 documentation ebook-convert ebook-convert inputfile outputfile options Convert an e-book from one format to another. Most e-readers can, theoretically, handle PDF files, but these files may not display well on the small, and often black-and-white, e-reader screen.

Turning your e-book into MOBI and EPUB files using Calibre

Calibre convert epub to mobi