I thought I would try to convert some of my fics to an epub format and I started following the instructions on the archive on how to do that.

Now, however, I'm stuck. I have to paste into Sigil. What the heck is Sigil? I've never heard of it.

Irene
the technically challenged!

No idea what Sigil is either, but I use Calibre to convert my files. Free to download, easy to use. Just hit add books, browse to find the file, highlight it, hit convert, choose the format you want to convert to from the drop down menu on the right hand side, hit go and a couple of minutes later, there's your file.

LabRat (who needs these things to be so simple a wombat with a lobotomy could do it.)

Sigil is an editor for creating books in the epub format. You can find it here:
http://code.google.com/p/sigil/
I haven't used it myself, yet, but there is an online documentation available.

Michael

Since I usually have all my finished stuff in html anyway - I've found that 'html to ePub' works very well for me.
For people with their work in Winword - save your document as an 'html filtered' file, then convert THAT file using your converter.
For myself, I tried to get my head around the 'doc to ePub' and the 'pdf to ePub' programs and I just ended up with headaches.