Are you an avid reader professionally or purely as a recreation? Then one of the modern skills that you must know is how to convert ebooks. By learning the simple steps that will turn your humongous tome into kilobytes of information you will change the way you interact with books altogether. Soon you won’t be driving to a bookstore but rather browsing leisurely on the internet and downloading what you want. Books previously confined to university libraries will now be at your fingertips to access and read at your leisure. Are you an avid reader professionally or purely as a recreation? Then one of the modern skills that you must know is how to convert ebooks. By learning the simple steps that will turn your humongous tome into kilobytes of information you will change the way you interact with books altogether. Soon you won’t be driving to a bookstore but rather browsing leisurely on the internet and downloading what you want. Books previously confined to university libraries will now be at your fingertips to access and read at your leisure. 

How will your acquiring the skill to convert ebooks change your existing library? Once converted into e-books, your library is now going to be infinitely more portable and available at the touch of your fingertips. They are also going to be accessible to be used for barter for other e-books thus potentially growing your library exponentially with little cost to yourself and only using up as much space as your tablet needs. 

So if you want to convert ebooks where would you start? The first step is to find software or a converter webpage that works for you. This software will enable you to convert your scanned or text documents into e-book reader formats. To do this the simplest way possible it would also help if you had OCR support. The good OCR software will enable you to convert scanned pages from your book into text documents that can then be converted to e-book formats. 

The first step in converting ebooks is to scan the pages of the book using a high resolution scanner or to have them digitized by having somebody actually key them in. If they have been scanned run all the text pages through OCR software which will then convert them to text. If you have an audio book find software that will convert voice into text. 

Whatever process you use you are going to have to go through a long process of rigorous proof checking to ensure that the converted ebook is error free. Once you are sure use your software to convert the file into any format that will be accepted by your eBook reader. These are EPUB, LIT, FB2, MOBI and PRC. If you are using OCR software then first convert the file into a text format like TXT, RTF, DOC and then convert to any eBook format.