Help with Calibre/Mobipocket Creator

[kellydeer.livejournal.com]

Mods - Please remove if you don't want this post here...didn't know where else to go *whines a little*

Anyway, last night I sent 3 fics to my Kindle e-ink reader (cheapy @ $79...have no idea what "generation" it is. That shit confuses me!) and it took like 2 hours for it to ever show up. This has never happened before, so in the meantime I started looking for alternative ways to place a fic on my Kindle via the USB cable. I ran across articles/discussion boards about Calibre & Mobipocket Creator. Needless to say, I still couldn't make it do what I wanted it to.

The Mobipocket would convert the Word Doc, but only to HTML and I could not find a place to change that setting regardless of what was stated on the different boards. I was trying to convert to an AZW file (which some said was the same as EPUB and I still don't know what the hell that is).

After failing with Mobipocket I downloaded Calibre and couldn't figure out how to work that either. Call me technically challenged, but I'm begging for some very simple directions on how to get a fic directly onto my Kindle without having to wait for my email. Is this even possible?

Any & all help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks :)

EDIT:  Much help found in the comments. I was successful with Calibre thanks to the most awesome josieb1

Comments

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

Hi Kelly, I have sent you a PM with some instructions on how to use Calibre, you can email me for more info if you want.

AZW is the format Amazon use for the ebooks they sell, just ignore that format for now, as bastdazbog has said you want to convert your word docs or PDFs to mobi format. One thing to remember is to open your word docs and resave as a Rich Text Font document first, load that into Calibre as it doesn't like word docs.

My instructions explain how to do it, but I have more detailed ones, with pictures, if you send me your email address.

Once you have it figgered out Calibre is awesome. I have been using it since 2009.

[kellydeer.livejournal.com]

Josieb1...you're AWESOME! That worked great for me & I truly appreciate all your help!!!

Let me know if I can ever return the favor!