I have absolutely no practical experience with HTML or any other programming and was wondering if anyone could recommend a source (application, book, forum, tutorial etc.) to learn the fundamentals that will help me to produce properly formatted or re-formatted books, specifically ePub.
I have an extensive collection of PDF and other books that need considerable rehashing to get them into what I consider readable form that can't be accomplished by simple conversion in calibre.
The main problems are books that have been converted multiple times in different formats and books that have been OCR'd to plain text.
I would also like to generate my own original works in clean ePub format.
I guess the questions I need answered are:
1. Is learning certain elements of HTML and CSS what I need to accomplish the tasks I have set myself? (Correcting or setting page and paragraph lay-out, TOC, images, tables)
2. What elements should I concentrate on?
3. Where are good sources for studying these elements?
4. Am I asking the correct questions?
In my mind I imagine the process as: converting books to ePub using calibre, exploding the book, loading it Notepad++ (or similar), using my newly acquired skills to reformat the book appropriately, re-combining the book and loading it onto my Kobo for hours of frustration free fun
Regards