[Agama]

I've hesitated to submit this query since the obvious solution is to use Sigil, but this seems to be a bit of "sledgehammer to crack a nutshell".

Having prepared a plain-text book with spell checking and textile/markdown tagging, I then convert to ePub using calibre. So far, so good - now the problems start! Many public domain books seem to have a lot of typos in them, possibly due to being OCR'd, so that careful proof-reading and correction is necessary.

Whilst I could proof-read the original text file it is much easier to use the calibre ebook reader, as the rendered ePub is easier to read than plain text. However, the reader cannot make corrections.

So, why not just use Sigil for proof-reading/editing? Well, because it restructures the ePub file and sometimes messes up the toc.ncx file.

So my query is this: Would it be possible to enable simple text edits, (insert/delete/copy/cut/paste), with the calibre reader and get it to save the changes to the ePub? This would not be structural or style changes, (therefore no xhtml tag changes), but simple text editing.

Would anyone else find this a useful tool or are there better ways to make proof-reading corrections?