Mobipocket creator allows you to create e-books for your smart phones like PalmOS, Windows Mobile, SymbianOs, Blackberry and others. This way you will be able to create a library of e-book with content of your choice which can be taken from any text file, image , xml file or an image file.

You will need Mobipocket reader to read the created e-book. The best part of this is both Mobipocket creator and reader are free of cost. In addition to ebooks, you can also create photo albums, personal databases.

Download Mobipocket creator according to your phones ( handsetsPalmOs Mobipocket ebook Reader for Windows Mobile,Windows Mobile (PocketPC, Smartphone) Mobipocket ebook Reader for Symbian (Series60, UIQ, Series80, Series90) Mobipocket ebook Reader for Blackberry and others (Franklin, iLiad, Pepper-Pad, BenQ-Siemens)

Install Mobipocket

Install mobipocket creator in advanced mode. When you first start the program you are greeted by a screen which gives you multiple options to create e-book, shopping list, Database, Photo album. As I am going to do it for e-book, choose blank publications under Create new publication.

Create a word document

Now mobipocket software reads a word document ot html file and creates ebook based on tags. Tags can be “div” “p” or any thing . You will need to look into the code for that. As I am teaching you so take this for an example and you will have to figure out if you take any other html or word for tags. Here is an example of word document

• Chapter One is TITLE
• First Part Chapter one is H2
• Some text in chapter is content
• and so on.

After you upload the word document to mobipack software. On top you will find link for editing HTML. Click on it and You will see something like this ( For the Tags we created)

<p class=”MsoTitle” id=”mbp_toc_0″>Chapter one</p>
<h2 height=”5%” id=”mbp_toc_1″ align=”left”>First Part Chapter one</h2>
<p class=”MsoNormal”><span> </span>Some
text in chapter one

Now we will move to third step and come back here again.

Creating table of content for E-book

To get a clear idea, Lets see how TOC will look like first. Compare the word image and this image for better understanding.

On the left side you will find option for creating Table of content. Click it and you see this image

The Tags which I marked bold in second step will be used here. I will explain now. Suppose you buy a book on Vista. TOC will show All the chapters name and then subtopics inside it.

Similarly “p” tag contains the Title of the Chapter , So we add it to first level and H2 tags contained sub chapter name, so we add it to second level. Hence If you look at the image of TOC again. First Level is title of main chapter title name and rest is sub chapters. Look at the image below again.

This is little complex but if you be patient it will be easy.

The rest of the things are easy. Like adding images to ebook, compressing . After you finish off things just press build which is at top menu.

Install Mobipocket reader on smartphone

Download Mobipocket reader and install it on your phone. Now using that you will be able to read the ebook we just created.

This shows up in the emulator how the ebook will look like. If you have any questions go ahead and ask me.

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