Home – Videos – How-To Guides – Novels – About One of the best aspects of e-publishing is the ability to make changes quickly and easily. If it’s not right, make the correction and try again. The same is true for my books on people’s Kindles, even when directly uploading Word Doc files in the way explained above. All of the hyperlinks and TOC elements and menu options should work perfectly.

I use Calibre or to convert my Word Docx to MOBI and then open them on the Kindle Previewer. It will accept MOBI, EPUB, HTML and OPF files under the File tab to Open. How will you know if you’ve done it correctly? Download the Kindle Previewer from Amazon. Obviously these are just little things that make it nicer for readers, especially for books with TOCs. This method also works for the Cover image by bookmarking it with “ cover” and also where the book really begins (like the intro or prologue) by bookmarking that with “ start.” (Again, do not actually type the “ quotes” as I have for the demonstration, but type the words: toc, cover and start.) Once saved and uploaded to Kindle, for example, that will become a Menu option for Kindle readers to go to the Table of Contents from anywhere in the ebook. When the Bookmark tab opens, type in “ toc” without the quotes and Add it.

It’s quite simple if you’re familiar with adding a bookmark in Word.Īll you need to do is place the cursor at the beginning of the page for the Table of Contents. This isn’t just a page at the beginning with Chapter headings and hyperlinks to places within the document, but also a TOC bookmark, which the e-readers (like the Kindle) will automatically recognize and add to their Menu option. Mobipocket Creator and HTML files are common, but I’ve found great results can be had by uploading a well-formatted Microsoft Word Doc (.doc) to Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook and Apple iPad.įor non-fiction titles and books with a Table of Contents section, one extra thing readers will appreciate is the inclusion of a TOC link. You may have run into slightly complex methods for formatting ebooks.

Calibre ebook reader to bookmark