How do you convert paper and digital texts into electronic books?Her Online - Arab Women's website

By/April Glaser

Books never die! It's just that written information has been transformed into digital data, like everything else. Although there is real magic in the idea of ​​having stacks of paper tied together; You can fold paper corners, underline words, add a note, and read without having to stare at the mobile screen, but e-books feel much more convenient. You might be able to carry four or five books in your bag, while one e-reader or tablet: can hold thousands of books. In addition: It allows you to search for texts, book summary and read at night without the need for light.

You can publish your e-book fairly easily. If you find a book online, and would love to read it on your page on yourKindle reader, submit it!

If you have more time: you can also turn your old paper book into an e-book. All you have to do to perform the conversion is: flip through the pages to scan.

So if you are ready to have a manuscript that has been sitting for years in a folder on your computer desktop or prefer to convert an old paper copy of novels or stories into digital format. Here are guidelines for making your own digital copy of any book:

- Select the format

There are a bunch of popular formats that will work for any e-reader, but in the end: you have to make your choice based on whether the book is for you alone, or for a broader audience?!

If you are trying your first novel with the world: the easiest way is to use a tool:https://kdp.amazon.com/ (Kindle Direct Publishing) from Amazon. Run your rich text with this free tool, and that makes your work on the Kindle Market () instantly. This tool makes your book look great when published on the widely used Kindle (Kindle) software, and then it can be easily put on any reader, mobile or other device, using Book reader appKindle.

If you don't intend to put your book on the Amazon store, but still want an e-book that can be read using a gadget (Kindle) or any tablet, In order to have the opportunity to distribute it to some other sites, try to use other services such asBlurb as e-book making programs give many options to place your book wherever you like.

Also note that any e-reader – includingKindle programs – can recognize files in the formatPDF and read it, so the easiest way to digital publishing is: take out your book in PDF format and then upload it to the Internet. This is arguably the easiest method of publishing, if you want to convert an old book into digital format. Depending on the use of the e-reader, this may cause the inability to access the PDF files by searching, and some of the advanced features of that e-reader will become unavailable, so you can grant These files provide an added strength, by converting them to one of the e-reader's native formats such asKindle's azw3. There is a free app calledCalibre that can convert your e-book to and from any format you want.

- Scan plan

How to turn paper and digital into books Electronic?</p><p><b>If you've ever written a book on a computer and it's been a bestseller: publishing it as an e-book is easy. But if it's a real paper book written by hand, and it doesn't have a digital version, you have to scan it.</b></p><p><b>As for the cheapest, but tedious, option: you flip through each page, and use a conventional flatbed scanner so you can take a picture of each page. It's hard to get a perfect scan though - you'll probably miss some of the existing words because of the book's focus.</b></p><p><b>The coolest way to digitize an old page is to use a flexible light scanner. A scanner would cost you more than $10,000 if you bought one, so if you have a library of out-of-print rarities: see if any public library in your town has a book scanner. Other services such as</b><b>Bound Book Scanning</b><b> and</b><b>Blue Leaf</b><b> have invested in hardware and will convert your books into the format for a fee (usually less than $15 per book).</b></p><p><b>If you're the handwritten type: you can try creating your own book scanner. There is a large community of e-book lovers, and they each create their own scanner. What fun!</b></p><p><b>- Share it or don't share it!</b></p><p><b>Now that you have your digital copy of your book, how are you going to distribute it? You can sell or publish your book for free, or you can keep it for yourself.</b></p><p><b>If you want to sell it: Your best bet to ensure wide distribution is either</b><b>Amazon's Kindle</b><b></b><b> Marketplace</b>< b> or </b><b>Apple's iBookstore</b><b>. The people in charge of both stores have laid out clear instructions on how to work with them in order to distribute your masterpieces. The two also allow you to give away your business for free. If you prefer to keep things as they are,</b><b>Kobo</b><b> has a publishing tool (the company also makes great e-readers) and</b><b>Smashwords</b> <b> is a platform used by many freelance writers. Here's a long list of alternatives to bestsellers:- </b><b>http://ebookarchitects.com/learn-about-ebooks/retailers/</b></p><p><b>Just try the first great edition of your favorite old text book with a dedicated staff. You can start with</b><b>PDF</b><b> and then convert it to a few different formats; So that everyone can find the format that suits them.</b></p><p><b>Congratulations on your new e-book! And remember, you don't have to lick your finger to turn the page anymore, as long as you're using the </b><b>Kindle</b><b>.</b></p><p><b> </b>ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ</p><p><b>Source</b>: wired.com</p><p>Link:</p><p>https://www.wired.com/2016/01/how-to-make-your-own-ebook/</p></div></p>

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