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Originally Posted by dwanthny
What I believe he said he did to mess up the order of his book was to do a ePub to zip conversion with unknown settings checked. Then he took the resultant zip file and converted it to epub with unknown settings checked.
Why? I haven't a clue.
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why - because someone here suggested that double conversion, as a workaround for the preprocess.. tick box being ignored with epub sources.
EDIT: the thread is here
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=114420
but reading it again, I see that I misunderstood the suggestion - which was actually to copy, rename & reimport the epub as zip. NOT to convert it to ZIP in calibre.
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i've not done any more testing but I suspect the epub to zip CONVERSION generates extra .xthml pages with next - prev links.
if I go epub to zip, then zip to epub, then open the end result in sigil I see lots of .xhtml sheets that wee not there before, and each sheet looks like a frame header with next and prev buttons on it . that would not be so bad if the order did not get mangled at the same time?
i think that the messed up order has nothing to do with pre-processing options and is most likely happening as a side effect in the epub-zip stage of conversion.
try it & see for yourselves, all books should behave similarly.