Review: A Good Starting Point for New Kindle Authors Who are Technically Challenged
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2013
As a Kindle newcomer about 8 months ago, I checked out and bought every formatting book I could lay my hands on. This book was one of the first, giving me a head start into the murky and contradictory world of Formatting with Word. Each author of Kindle formatting techniques has their own particular take on the subject and you'll find differing opinions as to what should or shouldn't be important. There are some common denominators and Charles Findlay is emphatic that given certain parameters, Word is quite suitable for producing a well laid out and acceptable document.He details all the specific headaches such as not using the automated TOC function and the need for paragraph styles to name a couple.Some authors have created more of a mystery about Formatting and think HTML is the business. That's ok if you're a Geek. This would put any newbie completely off his or her stride before even leaving the starting blocks!This author writes with a straightforward approach which made for a reasonable level of understanding on the first read.I found the book to be informative, excellently laid out with a minimum of dramatics.The apparent lack of a table of contents is explained when you get to Appendix A at the end of the book which details the use of Calibre for conversions. Apparently this software automatically produces a TOC, sticking it at the end of the document! This would be a personal choice and would save the new Author a fair bit of anxiety in my opinion.This is an excellent book and worth much more for the newcomer than the meagre price being asked. It is a very good starting point for the budding Kindle author. Clearly worth five stars!