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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Assuming it is already written in Word, would there be any advantage to copy and pasting it into Libre at that stage? Would Dreamweaver's "clean up" tool get rid of the extra stuff Word puts in? Then there would also be all the extra styles that Calibre creates but aren't used in the actual document.
For self-hosting all this probably wouldn't matter, but Amazon charges the publisher a transfer fee per kilobyte. So doing all that, plus making a special black and white cover (or removing the cover completely) would be worthwhile.
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I wouldn't copy and paste it, but rather just open it up in LibreOffice. LO supports the various Word formats. The problem comes in with exporting from Word, not importing into other stuff. I guess MS just figures most people don't really export from word, so didn't put any effort into making good export functions.
For me, I'd say the biggest reason is for ease of the reader. A poorly made ebook will cause issues. Recently I was reading an epub that had horrendous code. The entire book was in one HTML file, and the code in that file was not optimal. After I was reading a bit into it, my reader would pause and take several seconds to "reformat" each time hit the button for the next page. And yes, I took a look at the metadata in the HTML for that one, and it originated in Word 2007.