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Originally Posted by illustrata
I am still looking for best practices to create epub version that looks fine on all epub devices, predictably Calibre-convertable to mobi, and acceptably consistent in Kindle. Holy Grail...
This is an amazing forum.
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it's not rocket science, actually.
1. accept that epub can do some things which mobi cannot do , like drop caps, & background shading, & sacrifice them if you want universality
2. use sigil as your epub edit tool and be sure to use <h> tags on anything that you want the kindle 5 way navigation to jump to. sigil will build a toc that's good to go.
3 get rid of any font -family definitions; the e-readers will use their own anyway unless you hack them.
4. using sigil, get rid of any ADE .xpgt stylesheets unless you like your text to float in a sea of unnecessary whitespace.
4. in my experience doing the above, then save in sigil, then convert epub to mobi in calibre works very well.