Convert TXT to EPUB

Why convert TXT to EPUB

A long text in a .txt file is hard to read on a phone or e-reader: the lines are often broken at a fixed width, there is no table of contents, and the reader cannot remember where you were in a file without chapters. An EPUB fixes that. The text reflows to the screen, the app keeps your place, and you can jump from chapter to chapter. This tool reads the text file in your browser (UTF-8, UTF-16 or older Windows encodings), looks for lines that look like chapter headings in English and several other languages, as well as Markdown headings, and makes each one a chapter. Lines that were wrapped at a fixed width, as in Project Gutenberg texts, are joined into normal paragraphs, while short lines such as poems and addresses keep their line breaks.

How to convert TXT to EPUB

1. Drop your .txt file in the box, or click to choose it. The page shows how many chapter headings it found.
2. Check the title and add the author. Choose "No chapters" if the headings found are wrong.
3. Click Convert to EPUB and save the e-book.

What changes when you convert

Chapter headings need a line of their own

A heading is found when it stands alone on a short line after an empty line and starts with a word like Chapter, Part, Book, Prologue or Epilogue (or Kapitel, Chapitre, Capítulo, Hoofdstuk, Rozdział), or is a Markdown heading starting with #. A title on the next line, as in "CHAPTER I" followed by "The Keeper", is joined to it. Texts with other headings become one long chapter.

Plain text has no formatting

A text file has no bold, italics, pictures or fonts, so the e-book has none either. The EPUB uses a plain stylesheet, and your reading app picks the typeface and size.

Wrong letters in the result

If letters like é or ø look wrong, the text was saved in an encoding the tool did not guess. UTF-8 and Windows-1252 are recognised. Open the file in a text editor, save it as UTF-8 and convert it again.