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How does Sigil and Calibre compare?
What are the pros and cons of each?
I saw this but it's from 2 years ago: http://www.teleread.com/epub/sigil-v...redith-greene/ Has anything changed since then? |
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![]() Calibre is a Library Manager (with conversion and very limited S&R) Sigil is an EPUB editor that lets you ![]() ![]() |
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Library Manager? What does that mean?
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calibre manages your library of eBooks, providing tools for converting between different formats. organizing books by tags and other forms of metadata, and also tools to aid you synchronize your library with your eReader.
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Some author-publishers do use Calibre to make KIndle books (I am more familiar with Kindle than with Nook and other epub readers) and a few even swear by it. Every once in a while, however, Amazon seems to reject Calibre conversions to *.mobi format.
So yes, it is an excellent tool for an individual to manage an extensive library of e-books so that he can read them all in the e-reader of his choice. But as a tool for creating e-books for the market, it seems to be a bit accident-prone. |
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It seems perverse to choose anything other than Kindle Previewer to convert an epub.
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So while I agree that if you have any intention of distributing your ebook through official channels, it would be silly to use anything other than the official tools to convert the epub. But if someone wants to do a quick format shift just to read something on a new/different device, I can see Kindlegen/Previewer as being unnecessary overhead actually. In cases like that, the convenience of using the integrated converter feature of a program that they're already using to manage their ebook library (and to put the content on their device) is pretty hard to write off as "perverse." |
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It would certainly be nice if Kindlepreviewer gave the option to convert to azw3 instead of just mobi all the time.
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Yup. I keep forgetting about those guys.
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Is it possible to get JUST the azw3 portion of that...I don't need all the other versions with a file 2-3 times larger?
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Dale's right, Turtle. Unless you're using a really old version of KindlePreviwer, you're getting the combination file (mobi, KF8, source) that he described. Always. The underlying format is independent of the file extension.
You can split the azw3 from the rest with KindleUnpack if it's just for personal use. There's no need to split it out if you're uploading to KDP. They automatically send only the correct format to the device/app depending on its capabilities Last edited by DiapDealer; 06-07-2013 at 10:59 AM. |
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And doesn't Calibre (doing what it IS good at) send only the appropriate format to any given reader device?
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