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Originally Posted by cybmole
I had a quick go with sigil - it seems only able to handle epub - both lit & mobi version of same book appear as garbage. sigil has find replace, but not spell check.
notepad ++ displays garbage for all 3 formats unless I'm missing an obvious trick
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My bad. I thought you asked for tools to edit epubs? Sigil is an epub editor. It doesn't edit mobi or lit books.
Notepad++ will display garbage unless you expand the epub. As I mentioned, epub files are just renamed zips. You can explode them yourself by renaming the file to .zip (that is, "foo.epub" would be renamed to "foo.zip") and opening it with your favorite zip tool (winzip, windows explorer, etc). When you're done, just zip it all back up and rename it back to .epub (zip everything up to "foo.zip" and then rename that to "foo.epub"). Or you can skip all of those steps using Calibre's Tweak ePub option, as I mentioned.
Since I mainly use only epub, I've not spent any time looking at mobi or lit editing tools. Luckily the three formats convert back and forth relatively easily (as long as you don't get too fancy with the css in the epub), so you can edit the epub source and convert new mobi and lit copies from the epub.