Fancy, and Only Imports from Pages and Word

I would like to be able to convert pdfs to epubs, so I can read them, on my e-reader, without too much eye strain. I can use Textedit to clear out formatting and [step-by-step] clear out the line breaks. I thought this would let me organize the results into simple readable epubs.

But this is for fancy epubs, and cant open existing epubs, and this doesn’t import from Textedit, which is the best to clear out formatting, or from LibreOffice, which is my usual word processor, only from Pages or Word. I don’t see why I should need one more step in the process: pdf -> txt -> pages or doc -> epub.

I don’t know about multitouch. I can’t use multitouch with my disabilities, and don’t understand why multitouch would have anything to do with e-readers.

It also contains painful animation. For example, when I try and fail to open existing epubs, it has an animated graphic of flipping to the file selection screen and back.

Marja E about iBooks Author, v2.4.1