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View Poll Results: Do you edit eBooks? | |||
Yes, always or most of the time. |
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43 | 31.39% |
Yes, sometimes. |
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17 | 12.41% |
Yes, but only to fix issues |
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38 | 27.74% |
No. |
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35 | 25.55% |
Other (specify) |
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10 | 7.30% |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 137. You may not vote on this poll |
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I don't consider this "editing the book". Creating good metadata is just one step in adding a book to Calibre IMHO. |
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Wizard
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Like others, I don't consider editing metadata to be editing a book (that's just library management), although I suppose format shifting is a bit of a grey area. To me, editing means actually editing the content rather than the container or display instructions.
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Wizard
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I think in this context, "edit" means "modify the EPUB file in some way" and not "copy edit the text", so changing the metadata does constitute editing your e-books. The purpose of the poll is to see how many people accept their e-books "as is".
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I edit copies and not the originals. That’s because I don’t care about acknowledgements or dedications. I hate previews of future books. I don’t care about the thanks to the important people either. I edit out everything that’s not the story. I only do this for books I buy outside of Amazon.
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the rook, bossing Never.
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Even an "edit" of metadata that changes the metadata (only) in the ebook isn't really editing the book. The two are completely different and shouldn't be conflated. Some apps and ereaders only use filenames and ignore the metadata, yet disply the content correctly. Metadata is not used when reading an ebook, it's really only used for a library interface to browse/search ebooks rather than browsing file names and directories. Re-read what I wrote about physical libraries and rental libraries. |
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As for Mobi, you'd be better off converting to ePub. Kobo does a rather poor job with Mobi. Last edited by JSWolf; 03-14-2024 at 06:28 AM. |
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Bottom line, .epub, .mobi, .kfx, ... are all ebooks. If I change anything in the ebook file, I have edited/modified it. Even going so far as just changing the compression of an epub, would be editing/modifying it. Whether it is done with an editor, calibre, command line tools, ... anything that changes the content of the file is editing. IMO. |
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Aside from the normal metadata cleanup and adding a cover if needed, I have also added a table of contents to some books and corrected some particularly annoying OCR errors.
I normally deal with minor formatting issues (annoying font choice or size, etc) through my reader app's override options, if it has major display issues I'm more likely to abandon the book then to fix it. |
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I guess we are trying to make a distinction between...
Incidental Changes - changes that happen automatically because you have tidied up some metadata which Calibre and Sigil then automatically flow into the ebook and Comprehensive editing - pre-planned changes that affect the structure, layout, look and feel of the book by adjusting css, xml tags, tables, lists etc etc And I am assuming that editing the ebook, does not mean editing the story text. For me that is a no-no, except to fix typ-o's. |
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And if it's your own book, you'd edit in a word processor as source for content. |
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I have my own idea of how an ebook should be formatted and I apply it to all the books I buy. I remove the line height and the embedded fonts (unless there is a precise reason to keep them, which is almost never). I remove also @page and body margins. And my normal paragraphs have no margins, no font-size and text-indent is 1.5em.
Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better if I could just read the books and enjoy the reading, but I can't. Last edited by ps67; 03-14-2024 at 06:11 PM. |
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That's how I see it anyway. |
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I feel like I should have named the thread and poll "do you edit your eBook files."
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