Some people cook when they're frustrated. Some go for a walk or listen to music. I just go read and write, at least in winter. In summer I might choose the walk - or pulling weeds!
Today's frustration started a couple of weeks ago when I listened to a teleseminar about putting books on Amazon for Kindle.
Kindle Books sounded like a good idea...
Since I have several ebooks, I decided to give it a try. So I started with one 
and did a bunch of editing. Then I wrote the "sales page" that would go on Amazon. Then last night I started learning about how to format it for Kindle, add the table of contents, etc.
The instructions made my brain short out for a while, but then I started following the steps - slowly. It wasn't easy because I would just think I understood the last paragraph when the next paragraph would say "If you're using Word 7, disregard and do this..." UGH!!
Anyway, finally I had the text formatted and saved as a "Filtered HTML."
Next step: Download the MobiPocket Creator. I downloaded it and the Kindle Previewer... or at least I thought so.
At that point it was 2 a.m. and I decided to quit and come back today...
Today I can find the "Creator," and I followed the steps all the way through "Build finished." Then I saved the document as a .prc file. So far so good...
But now what?? No matter what I click on, it doesn't do anything. It just takes me in a big circle - around and around and around and back to where I started.The title is just sitting there... sitting there.
As for the previewer... I've downloaded it and said "run" 3 times now... and still can't find it. The third time I even specified where I wanted it saved, but... nope. It may be in my computer 3 times - somewhere.
Finally I decided to go ahead and upload the file to Amazon. It took a while to find the .prc file created by the MobiPocket Creator, but I finally did. It was hidden under a bunch of other "stuff."
Not being able to find the previewer, I used the one on Amazon.
Now, if I could figure out why the table of contents that I spent 2 hours creating is NOT THERE, it would be nice.
I expect I need to start again from the beginning - or somewhere. But why isn't the Kindle program showing showing the table of contents when the file I uploaded from my computer does?
I often wished I had a techie brain that would just "understand" this stuff and why it does and doesn't work. Or, that I had a techie person on call - to just run over here and show me the error of my ways about 16 times a day.
Meanwile, I need to unwind. I think I'll just hang out here at Active Rain for a while and read.
Happy New Year!
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