I use Jutoh exclusively for creating and editing my ePubs because it’s low cost, easy to use and produces error free results…if I stick to protocol.
Jutoh is software for Windows, macOS and Linux that lets you edit and publish your book to any ebook distributor. You can import your book from a Word, OpenDocument or Epub file, or write it from scratch in Jutoh. Portable Jutoh is a software utility which helps individuals make e-books for their readers from already existing documents or create their own projects. All the advatanges of Jutoh, but with a.
Jutoh, the beginning
About three books in the past, I was seriously searching for a low cost way to convert my two books to ePub. There were a number of third party ePub converters but I wanted to convert them myself. I was reading reviews, on a website, of software that self-publishers could use to create and edit ePubs and ironically, there was one that I had sitting idle on my computer, eCub by Anthemion. It was free but the company also had a more robust commercial ePub creator/editor called Jutoh http://jutoh.com/ and it was low cost, $39.00. I mention the price here because it has more than paid for itself by enabling me to produce ePubs for a variety of vendors, LuLu, Google, Barnes and Noble, iBooks and creating ePubs that could be converted to the Kindle format (mobi) using Calibre.
Using Jutoh
When I first began looking for an ePub creator/editor; I wanted a program similar to one that could convert a Word doc to PDF with one click and I found some but the results were far from suitable. The more I looked, the more I found suggestions that the best error free ePubs were built manually. I had always considered “building manually” meaning using a program like Notepad or Notepad++, writing in Notepad or importing the text, converting the text to htm and importing the htm to an ePub creator/editor or using Notepad or Notepad++ to compile the htm into an ePub. Jutoh made the ePub process easier. It’s still a manual build but easy. I began by copying and pasting each print-ready Word doc into a Jutoh folder. I do this because the print-ready Word doc is already edited and proofread. I then convert each segment to htm and the htms are imported into Jutoh. The segments are assembled to match the print-ready layout (title page, copyright page, foreword, dedication, chapters, etc). After the htms are assembled, edited and proofread, I run the Compiler, then run the Error Checker to check for errors and if there are none, preview the newly created ePub in Adobe Digital Editions. To create an ePub that meets iBooks requirements, I select the “Optimize for iBooks” configuration. Although Jutoh can optimize for Mobi (Kindle), I don’t use it because I get better results using Calibre to convert my ePubs to Mobi. Using Jutoh, I can import a book cover or create one. I can also edit ePubs and make layout adjustments, such as text, type, size and color, justification, spacing, indents, etc. If you’re interested in learning more about Jutoh, you can download this free book titled Creating Great Ebooks Using Jutoh, here http://jutoh.com/book.htm.
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