A Quick Note...

If you want to read a draft of a novel, short story, novella, etc. without printing on paper, you can save it to a reading app or tablet. If you have the newest version of Scrivener, I believe you can save your file directly to what you need.

I use Google Docs, though, and it can only save to an .epub file. What I needed was an app to turn that .epub file into a .mobi file. Calibre is the exact app I needed. You add your file to your collection and have it convert the file. It’s simple. Then, I needed to download Amazon’s “save to Kindle” extension, right click on the file, and then tell it where I wanted it to go.

A word of warning, though. You’ll want to put a hashtag (#) symbol between any scene breaks you have. Calibre does see a page break as a chapter break, but takes away any extra spaces in-between paragraphs. If anything, publishers like to see triple hashes (#) or triple asterisks (*) between scene breaks. So it’s good practice to choose one symbol to use. Then, if you want to query, you can quickly edit as requested in the guidelines later.

Now back to my first draft read-through...

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You can find Calibre here.

You can get "send to Kindle" here.