regshoe

:D I hope you enjoy it! I'm not familiar with those terms, but I definitely recognise the heartache of a too-long to-read list, oh dear...

Ooh, how exciting that you're thinking of getting into ebook making! It's great fun and a very rewarding hobby, I find. :)

The most common way ebooks are made is by a large team of volunteers working together through Distributed Proofreaders, where one person will make the text file and various others proofread it a little bit each before others again do the HTML and final formatting. I don't do that (it's too complicated; I want to pick my own books to work on; and I would get very frustrated only seeing a page of a random book at a time!), but they also accept submissions of ebooks from volunteers working independently. Anyone can do this, and AFAIK they accept books in any language, so (as long as you can get around the Germany-copyright-blocking issue) then you should be fine. I've never found the FAQs and help pages on their website very helpful or easy to navigate, unfortunately—perhaps they've improved, but in the meantime I've compiled a little collection of useful links and resources. I'd be happy to send you these, and to help with any issues or questions you may have!