# My Manuscript is Finished **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-manuscript-is-finished/815067 "2018-05-29T16:27:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-manuscript-is-finished/815067/1 "2018-05-29T16:27:05Z")
Something like 850 pages of the second edition of Codeword Dictionary. Now all I have to do is figure out how to format it for Kindle. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-manuscript-is-finished/815067/2 "2018-05-29T17:03:36Z")
Okay, where is [red, yellow, and greenish-grey](https://www.amazon.com/Codeword-Dictionary-Compilation-Enforcement-Codewords/dp/0760303681) a useful camouflage? ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-manuscript-is-finished/815067/3 "2018-05-29T17:50:50Z")
Ah, I haven’t done this for a couple of years but if you have Word, save it as a “web page filtered” and then you can either run it through Calibre (free software) or, I think, just upload it to Kindle. They ask, when you do it, for things like author name, edition, keywords, stuff like that. When I did this I only had a very old Kindle to check it on but once you upload it, you can see how it will look in various Kindle configurations. Calibre will also format it as an Epub, for other platforms. There are a lot of options. There’s also quite a bit of info on the internet about how to do this. I’m assuming you don’t want anything too fancy like drop caps. (I did get a little fancy and used CSS.) You will want the original manuscript to be set up in styles, i.e., don’t format a paragraph by tabbing, don’t change the settings by hand on each paragraph. Saving it as a filtered web page takes a lot of Word crap out of it. Technically it’s probably cleaner to build your own HTML file out of a text file but it seems to me that the “web page filtered” option is clean enough. If you go through Kindle Direct Publishing you can also get them to link the new edition to any previous editions. I don’t remember just how I did this. I believe I sent somebody an email, but it must have been pretty clear how to do it, because I did it. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-manuscript-is-finished/815067/4 "2018-05-30T01:15:41Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Okay, where is [red, yellow, and greenish-grey](https://www.amazon.com/Codeword-Dictionary-Compilation-Enforcement-Codewords/dp/0760303681) a useful camouflage? It was good enough that I am just using it again for this, final edition. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-manuscript-is-finished/815067/5 "2018-05-30T01:22:33Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Okay, where is [red, yellow, and greenish-grey](https://www.amazon.com/Codeword-Dictionary-Compilation-Enforcement-Codewords/dp/0760303681) a useful camouflage? In Julio’s Ketchup, Mustard, And Arsenic Emporium. 🙂