I could see on Google that others had the same problem. The newly-added photographs came into the photo store, showed perfectly in Calibre, but in the Kindle Previewer they were marked by a black camera glaring out at me. I found a lovely button (top left with a + sign) that let you add a new photograph, so I could add or change pictures if I wanted. I was able quickly, using the HTML panel, to take out all the table commands and immediately things jumped into place. I soon deduced that the table that I had put around each photograph in Word was causing the problem over in Calibre. Mine is rudimentary – learnt when using Dreamweaver in the old days before WordPress. To do more than that, you do need elementary HTML knowledge. If you want to add a few words, delete a word or add a space, there is no difficulty, but you have to find the location in the HTML and do it on that side. On the right is your text and on the left, the HTML version.
The reason is that you see three panels on the screen, two of which are major. At last I got into it.Ĭalibre's is an excellent editor, though definitely not for beginners. I was in despair, when I noticed that over on the extreme right the screen menu was a button saying ‘Editor’. Unfortunately the photographs were once again giving trouble – all over the place. In the first place I made changes by going back and editing the Word file and then re-importing and re-converting. I had a bit of trouble with font size and line spacing, but otherwise it all seemed good. You have to import your book, convert it and then look at it for errors. Recently I decided to convert the book to an ebook. I finally sorted that by capturing them in tables with only two cells – one for the photograph and one for the caption. They would hop about, separate themselves from their captions and lead an independent life.
However, in Word, handling photographs is chaotic, and I had over fifty to place. It all went fine, apart from the photographs.įor a simple text book Word may not be perfect but it is adequate – especially if, as I did, you buy a template from. I contemplated spending hours learning a new and sophisticated program. When I came to write my book everyone told me: ‘Oh Word is awful. Ever had trouble formatting ebooks that feature lots of illustrations? Indie author Rose Deakin, currently preparing to self-publish her book Frances Donaldson: A Woman's War, describes how she used Calibre as the ideal solution for that situation.
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