E pub and MOBI software

by Ralph Cutting
12th July 2019

Please could someone let me know how or where I can download free Mobi or E Pub software into which I can covert Word documents for Kindle. There's lot's of information ABOUT Mobi and E-pub, but nothing on HOW and WHERE to obtain it.

I have just published a paperback anthology of verse on Amazon Create Space, but when I reviewed the Kindle version, the stanzas and chapter headings were all over the place [right, left, top of the page] rather than the verses being in the centre of the 'page'.

Can E-pub and MOBI help one edit or change the page size to fit the text?

Alternatively, what page size on Word does one recommend, where the position of the text/verses on each page are not going rogue?

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There's quite a lot of different software now. However, quite often there are pirated programs that can cause damage to technology. That is why some people turn to software developers.

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Paul
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Thanks for your feedback again, it is appreciated.

I think one has to upload the MS onto the Kindle create on the publishing page. Indeed, it is the same page as I uploaded and created the paperback. Amazon then offered the optionof publishing a Kindle version. They (Amazon) didn't offer a Kindle create download. Furthermore, the Kindle preview they gave me to download is not viewable on my computer.

I will check Amazon again to see if there's a Kindle create, but as I mentioned, my problem is formatting and the appearance of the text, which went rogue. Creating the Kindle version itself was no problem, as I was able to see a preview. The solution is, I think, to create a brand new version in Word, in the manner stated in my previous reply.

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I'm told 'Kindle Create' (free download from Amazon) works for poetry, though I've never tried it. Is that what you used?

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