Plain text: conversion steps
- Upload your Plain text file to start.
- Convert Plain text to AZW3.
- Download the Plain text file.
About Plain text files
unformatted plain text
A plain text file contains only characters, usually encoded as UTF-8, with no formatting, images or chapters.
Notes, public-domain books such as those on Project Gutenberg, and any text a program needs to read.
Plain text: what conversion changes
Converting Plain text reflows layout.
Plain text: settings to change
Before you convert Plain text files, you can adjust: Title, Author, Language, Page size, Base font size, and Generate table of contents.
Limits of the Plain text format
Turning a book into plain text drops all formatting, images and tables.
Common questions about Plain text
Why does my TXT file lose all the bold, italics and headings from my document? Plain text stores characters and nothing else, so any styling has no place to live — a format like EPUB or PDF is needed to keep it.
Why convert a document to TXT? For maximum portability: any device, editor and script reads plain text, and it is the base format for indexing and search.