skanter said:
Some of the books I had were in .lit format which Amazon cannot convert. But I found a program that converts .lit files to .text or word.doc, which Amazon will convert to the kindle format. I wish there were a way to retain chapter formatting, but it kook like there isn't.
If you feel like spending a little bit of money (because the book is really important to you) I can highly recommend Joshua Tallent at www.kindleformatting.com. Joshua does a great job and if you say, "I want this book to have chapter breaks, a linked table of contents, etc." Joshua will deliver it it you.
He also has a book coming out (any day, I believe) on formatting books for the Kindle, so you can learn to do it yourself. Apparently, the best way to format books is in HTML so you need to learn some of that (and get an HTML editor of some sort, you probably don't want to do it all on Notepad in Windows) but I gather that the actual process is not too hard, once you figure out what you are doing. For me, I haven't bothered figuring it out and just pay Joshua to do the job.
If all of this seems like too much trouble then you'll probably end up with somewhat crummy looking books. Like I said at the beginning, it really depends on how important the book is to you.
L