(You can also “set output profile” here for e.g.

Change your page margins to something like 50.0 pt on all sides, to get a white border for adding notes. Under “fonts,” adjust your minimum line height to 130% to space out the text.Ħ) On the left, select Page Setup (the gears). Do this before you change any other conversion settings:ĥ) On the left, select Look and Feel (colorful paint jar). If you need a classic ebook to follow along, use the free ePub books at Project Gutenberg.ģ) Once you’ve added 1+ books, select it or them, and tick the brown Convert Books button:Ĥ) In the pop-up window, stop and change output format to PDF, top right. (Here I’d like to honor the publisher Verso for their 90% off Christmas sale last year, as well as for selling DRM-free ebooks that identified me as the purchaser, but let me fully modify them for my own use!)Ģ) Tick the red Add Books icon (top left) to import your ebooks. Because it took me a while to develop my system, I’m sharing what I’ve learned with other academic / non-fiction reading people, below! How to Convert ePubs to an Attractive PDFġ) Download and install Calibre, a respected free application that will convert ebooks to and from many formats.ġ.5) Buy ebooks that are DRM-free, so you can annotate, highlight, print, and convert at will. Yet often I can only get ebooks in epub. This means I often need to save websites, Word docs, and epubs to PDF before I read them on my tablet.Īt first, I found it hard to get a “pretty” PDF from an epub file the default conversion in Calibre produced ugly results. I also want a visually appealing page, and a fixed layout. If I’m buying a book and taking notes, I want to save and read my notes right alongside the text and in the file later. I like the convenience of reading on a tablet, but I prefer annotating PDFs to reading in Kindle or epub. Feel free to move on if you’re here for other things!) (A technical post for those seriously interested in e-reading.

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