I have some screenshots lying around of the eBook I did for Mary Robinette Kowal’s free fiction sampler, and I thought it would be interesting to look at the process I used to convert her .rtf files.

I have a MacBook, so it comes equipped with a lot of text-munging capabilities out of the box, thanks to pre-installed perl and python. With Crossover installed so I could leverage the Windows-only Mobipocket Creator and Reader, I have everything I need to create eBooks from text, HTML, RTF, or PDF (as long as it’s not scanned images), even Word documents.

There’ll be plenty of images, so the rest of this post is under the cut.

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