Odd question, I know.
Although I have a publisher, they are small – so when I am not thrilled with certain things I am told to do it myself or pipe down.
That’s actually not a bad thing – since most authors get almost no allowance to do anything beyond write and deal with the idiosyncrasies of whatever happens.
I am writing this because I test drove the kindle version of TOOLS OF PROPHECY which is being released July 1st. It looks great – except I was annoyed that no page numbers exist for it, just locations.
Now for those who might have read my “about Mike” section, you’ll know I am an engineer.
Heck – I might focus a lot on writing or designing solutions for system software, but I can spell HTML.
When I was told that no page numbers would be released with Tools, it annoyed me.
How many of you indie authors would like to know how to add page numbers to your kindle versions (presuming I can hack a solution together)?
Well suffice it to say that I am publicly throwing down the gauntlet – damnit I am gonna figure out how to crack the secret and do it right. I mean page numbers that aren’t estimates – but identically match hard copy versions of a novel.
What do I need?
Computer? Check!
Digital book source? Check!
Hard copy for page numbers? Check!
Okay…. I have until Saturday night.
Wish me luck!
I’ll be very interested to see how you get on although since a lot of my books only exist in digital format they’ve never had ‘proper’ page numbers. I’m fairly handy on a computer but what you plan to do is way beyond me! I’ve been reading books on my Kindle for 18 months plus and no longer miss page numbers, I have to say. I have never fully got to grips with the location number, I’d rather see an ebook page number there, but I find the percentage bar at the bottom of the page a handy tool.
Anyway, good luck!
Well I can say that I didn’t meet the deadline. Dog ate my homework, etc. am fairly certain I know how now, but I also realize the foolishness of trying to fix something a couple days ahead of a hard deadline.
I’ll try again in a couple weeks when I get a bit more time….