Do you edit your eBooks?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Karellen

But it's broken and unmaintained, isn't it?
Sometimes it works, and some times it doesn't.
I reported an error 5 months ago...
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=198

Huh! I use it all the time in both Calibre and Sigil (both are current versions)

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by DNSB

On the two occasions when I tried, I found it almost impossible to transfer my Sigil saved searchs and automate list items to Editor Chains. If Editor Chains had been around when I first started to automate, I might have made the opposite choice.

To be fair, my chains are mostly simple things. Like removing empty paragraphs from fanfics (because of authors using weird line-spacing).

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by DNSB

When I used his Editing Toolbag with calibre's ebook-editor, I did run into a similar issue to the one you reported but after correcting errors reported by epubcheck, the issue disappeared.

I run at the start of the editing process, and yes there are usually errors with epub check and the Calibre check, but that is expected as I am just starting.
When it doesn't work, I fall back to regex instead.

[7hir7een]

I will always edit the metadata and download a cover if the original one is too small/not the one I want. Also I will run the polish books function to update the cover in the book file, remove unused CSS rules, and compress images.

As far as editing the actual code of the book, when I was using KOReader I could get away with not doing so most of the time. That was because I could choose to ignore font families, margins, padding, etc. within the reader.

Now that I'm trying to use the stock reader (for the Libra Colour note-taking features), I find myself having to remove these things from the code myself, and quite frequently. I really wish the stock reader had some way to ignore publisher fonts

[Aleron Ives]

If you use KEPUB, selecting your own font from the font list overrides all of the publisher's font choices.

[7hir7een]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

If you use KEPUB, selecting your own font from the font list overrides all of the publisher's font choices.

I'm going to have to start using kepub just for that!

[Aleron Ives]

It's one of the reasons I use it, too, along with the fast page turn feature, image viewer, and better performance.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Karellen

But it's broken and unmaintained, isn't it?
Sometimes it works, and some times it doesn't.
I reported an error 5 months ago...
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=198

The only time I've encountered an error is when epubcheck throws up an error. So so as long as the structure has no errors, the plugin works properly.

[Renate]

For me, a cover is something you page past to get to the book. I don't browse by cover or show it anywhere. So even Gutenberg covers don't annoy me too much.

I never de-DRM a book. It's not moral inhibition, I just can't be bothered. For horrible CSS (I'm looking at you Duke, the publisher with the stupid dog) I just use the "nuclear option" and delete all (still encrypted) CSS files from the zip (epub).

The one book I did edit was the Gutenberg Shakespeare. The TOC was a train wreck. I offered my cleaned up Play/Act/Scene TOC to Gutenberg but they insisted on using their automatic TOC generator running off <h1><h2><h3> on very mixed sourced plays.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Renate

I never de-DRM a book. It's not moral inhibition, I just can't be bothered. For horrible CSS (I'm looking at you Duke, the publisher with the stupid dog) I just use the "nuclear option" and delete all (still encrypted) CSS files from the zip (epub).

You don't have to be bothered. Once you are configured to remote the DRM, that's it done. It just happens when you import DRM infected eBook into calibre. I cannot remember the last time I changed any of the DeDRM options. Yes, I've gone and looked at them, but did not make any changes.

Then if you did decide to change the CSS instead of drop it, you could.

[Renate]

Here's an example of Table of Contents for Shakespeare.
The left is my version, the right is stock Gutenberg.

Ha, ha, any time you post something you spot an error: "of" should not be capitalized.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Renate

Here's an example of Table of Contents for Shakespeare.
The left is my version, the right is stock Gutenberg.

Ugh, I dislike stock Gutenberg books.

I appreciate what they do. I think it is very important. But then I'm also glad for the likes of Standard eBooks for making stuff better.

[John F]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Ugh, I dislike stock Gutenberg books.

I appreciate what they do. I think it is very important. But then I'm also glad for the likes of Standard eBooks for making stuff better.

Wait for it ...

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by John F

Wait for it ...

Ummm. Sitting here shaking with anticipation

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[DNSB]

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Ditto.