![]() ![]() It was a great experience to research this little camping book, to write the blog articles, and then to put everything together and make available both as a paperback and an ebook. Oh, well! I've managed to produce a nice little book, RTTC Bears in the Wild, which I think provides some good reading and good color photos this last time around. "Now how did I do that?" you think, and then you have to go back and learn all over, at the same time realizing that in ten years things have changed. ![]() You fix or replace something, and then ten years later you have to do it again. These are just my experiences, but most folks are like me, not wizards at all the ins and outs of whatever word process and publishing platforms are being utilized. The books are unique documents, and losing a manuscript because saving in the cloud didn't work would be a real downer. Therefore, the final manuscript for these books was significantly different than all the blog articles put together. Words like "here," "now," and "today" don't play out the same in books as in blogs. Time flows differently in a book than in a blog. I mean, well, it was that, but a book is different than a blog book chapters are different than blog articles. Creating the book wasn't just copying and pasting the articles into the book template, though. These few insights leads me to the need to reiterate that my last three books have been collections of blog articles that I've compiled into books, listed earlier in this article. That scare did lead me, though, to regularly making copies of the publishing draft and saving them under a new name, such as "Bear March 25," which provided the assurance that if all my compiling work did get lost or corrupted in the ether, that I'd have a copy of what I'd created. What! Had I lost the entire manuscript? What I realized after a time of panic was that the movement of the manuscript from Google Drive to Kindle might take a bit and to not jump right from compiling the book on Drive to checking out what the book will look like on the preview section. ![]() I had moments of panic when I received a message from the Kindle draft viewing function saying that there was an error in saving. As my book grew in length-as I inserted chapters and photos-saving the program grew a little longer. KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR FORMAT HOW TOI'd read an article online of how to set up an ebook's table of contents for the Amazon Kindle platform using Docs, and then some of the directions from the article met up with the Docs platform just not having the "go to" or "click" steps available. I say "seem" because it wasn't always clear. "Bookmarks" is the Docs designation for anchors, and the possibilities for use seem to be limited in Docs. ![]() For instance, adding anchors for ebook navigation in Word (moving from the table of contents to the chapter and back to the TOC) was not exactly the same for Google Docs.
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