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Originally Posted by travger
I can't really imagine more naked format than html. If I can get my claws into that, I can tweak anything in the book (or learn to tweak). And I believe it will convert less painlessly into some future format (more likely, noname readers will accept several formats). Now I try to download only epub or mobi.
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@travger, re the other things in your post, I'm really trying to use calibre as the light or matter-that-I-can-touch-and-rely-on in my eBook universe with everything not calibre more like dark matter/dark energy that I have to use sometimes but would like to avoid if possible. (With exception allowed for a good HTML editor or two.) I guess it's a pretty big difference between starting places or approaches we have. And if yours works for you I'm glad. Though some of your methods don't seem to fit in my universe of trying to use calibre as the core of everything particularly since I don't know enough HTML yet.
About HTML and learning HtML being the primary keys to the lock of most clean-up and conversion problems, I fully agree. Maybe after I learn enough HTML, my core library will hold
onlyHTML formats. Edit them, generate formats for devices on the fly, read, immediately delete any other format. It'd be even nicer if I could edit that HTML directly on reading device as I read. Raw HTML is probably the truest "lossless" format currently available in the state of current technology, in my admittedly new and limited understanding of the eBook world.
@kiwidude, I like the idea of "why" inside spoilers. That's a great idea, and I'll work on implementing something like that for next version. Have a feeling that won't be easy for me, leaving the do-this's and do-that's naked with the why's hiding under the
bed button. I'm the kind of person who likes to know why's first too.