mass edit .epub books?

[Betonhaus]

One of the places I got my ebooks from adds a footnote to each chapter, and the footnote is identical every time including the formatting, and is unique and not found anywhere else in the books. Is there a way to set a mass edit where I feed sigil a bunch of files and it goes through them all, finding and removing this specific string of text from all my books?

thanks.

[KevinH]

Not without using batch files to launch Sigil repeatedly as Sigil ones works on one epub at a time. Then you must use Sigil's Find and Replace to remove that footnote setting the target as All HTML files (or write your own custom plugin).

Calibre might be a better choice as it can run operations on all epubs in your library and their editor has the same find and replace capabilities as Sigil

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by KevinH

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Calibre might be a better choice as it can run operations on all epubs in your library and their editor has the same find and replace capabilities as Sigil

↑ ↑ ↑ ✔

Via the Editor Chains and Actions Chains optional plugins.

BR

[Betonhaus]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Not without using batch files to launch Sigil repeatedly as Sigil ones works on one epub at a time. Then you must use Sigil's Find and Replace to remove that footnote setting the target as All HTML files (or write your own custom plugin).

Calibre might be a better choice as it can run operations on all epubs in your library and their editor has the same find and replace capabilities as Sigil

I wanted to avoid using Calibre, as my eBooks are organized in folders so that they can be accessed through Jellyfin. To use Calibre, I'd have to import all the books, edit them, export all the books, then try to get them in the right folder structure again. I have enough books to make that not feasible, so i'm trying to edit them without renaming or moving them.

I'm on Linux so i'd have to use a bash script instead of a batch file, but I might try that. or maybe there's a command line tool I can use

[theducks]

Calibre editor (and viewer) can be used from the command line. No need to add to the Library.

[patrik]

Originally Posted by Betonhaus

I'm on Linux so i'd have to use a bash script instead of a batch file, but I might try that. or maybe there's a command line tool I can use

If it's a unique sequence you can remove them all with a script with sed (+ automatic unzip & re-zip).