How to Set Metadata Editor in Sigil (A digital Book)

Did you create a digital book before?
If you don't create it yet, you can try SIGIL.

Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor (think Word or LibreOffice but specific for EPUB ebooks) with the following features:

1. Free and open source software under GPLv3
2. Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux (note Linux only receives limited support)
3. Full UTF-16 support
4. EPUB 2 spec support with limited EPUB 3 support
5. Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
6. WYSIWYG editing in Book View
7. Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
8. Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
9. Metadata editor
10. User interface translated into many languages
11. Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries
12. Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace
13. Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,
14. Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated
15. All imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned
16. Plugins!

If you don't have the software yet, you can download it at https://sigil-ebook.com

In this section, I want to explain how to set metadata editor if you want to create a digital book by using SIGIL.

The steps are as follow:

1. Prepare a file (Ms. Word), a cover book (JPEG), and a video (if you have) that you want to create as a digital book
   Word
   
   Cover Book
   

2. Convert your Ms. Word document into web page filtered
   
   The Result of Word Convertion
   

3. Open SIGIL
   

4. Open file word converted
   

5. Insert a cover book
   click image-add existing file-choose file
   

1. Click tool - Metadata Editor
   

2. Setting your metadata editor based on your digital book
   For example:
   Authour : Your Name
   Publisher: The company that publish your digital book
   

For complete tutorial, you can watch my video tutorial below:

If you have any trouble to set metadata editor in SIGIL, you can comment below.
See you in next tutorial

@azwarrangkuti

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