Create E-Book from Word Documents

E-Book is an electronic form of a usual book. You can read it on your PC or laptop etc . you can purchase and download your favourite books in E-Book format from many sites in the Internet.

E-Books are available in various file formats. Also you require reading softwares to open and read it. Here i am mentioning about Microsoft reader.There is '.lit' extension on E-books compatible with Microsoft reader.

The steps involved in creating E-Books using Microsoft reader are :-

1. Download the Microsoft reader from http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/pc.aspx and save it to your PC and then install it. (this is to read the created e-book in microsoft reader format)

2.To make your E-Book in microsoft reader format , download and install the free Add-in For Microsoft Word from http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/rmr.aspx
This rmr (Read in Microsoft reader) add-in works with Word 2002 or 2003. Now when launching the Word, you can se the reader icon in the tool bar. and there is a read command on the file menu. It is used to create your E-book.

3. Open the word file which you want to convert to E-Book. Or create a word file and save it.

4. Click on the 'Reader' icon in the tool bar or select 'reader' command from file menu. Now a window will pop up and you can fill the details (such as Title, author , file name) there. Also select the folder where you want to save the E-book.

5. By selecting 'Convert to reader formating' check box, it will format it according to the reader. If there is "table of contents" in your word file, you can make it compatible with reader format by selecting "Reformat table of contents".

6. By clicking "customise covers" you can choose desired picture as the cover Image of the E-book. Click "browse" and select the picture and click "OK".If you not done this the E-book will be created with default cover image.

7. Click OK to begin the conversion of word file to reader file. E-Book will be created and saved in the folder you specified. Now your E-book is ready to use.

Now open the E-book and click 'goto' and select 'begin reading' to read the book. or select 'begin playing' to listen your E-book. for additional settings select settings and do accordingly.there is more menus like, Library, shop,help,settings,return etc.

While reading the book you can select sentences and then one menu will pop up and you can add more beauty to your book. See the Help menu for more details.