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Originally Posted by cybmole
1. lock in is bad - completely agree, solution is to boycott those retailers who are the worst offenders, + learn how to liberate your own books. Anyway B&N DRM is just as easy to bypass as other flavors!
2. yes i have, I buy lots of retail mobi from amazon, strip DRM & convert with calibre for my sony reader. & fine tune with Sigil. so I know exactly what an epub conversion by calibre looks like - it is very fit for purpose, and easy to fine-tune.
that's why calibre is by far the most used conversion program.
AND its output files pass all the built in checks that sigil offers
so don't pre-judge - go learn how to use calibre preferences!
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Seems we now agree on lock-in.
But it's like you didn't read my post. At. All. Every little snipe goes against something I actually say in my post. For example, I'm "pre-judging" yet I somehow edit Calibre converted books all the time. Now how do I pre-judge if I'm using it for conversion?
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calibre does an excellent job IMHO, and in the opinon of 1000s of its other users; if you can do better then bring YOUR program to market!
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LOL. Yes, your opinion or the highway.
If a program does something we don't like, nobody can bring up the deficiencies, ever, until they write their own program! All those complaints about Word, Windows, Mac OS X, Android iOS, etc.... nope! Invalid! Write your own!
On Calibre's formatting, we disagree. Period. No point in arguing further.
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specifically - you want to buy from B&N + read on sony - no conversion is needed, just remove the DRM - conversion is only needed if you buy .mobi from amazon to read on an epub device such as Sony/Kobo/Nook, & calibre handles that very well IMHO
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This all started because you took me to taksfor creating ePUBs that have headers. Why? Because it was not a feature
you needed. (Your way or the highway!!!!
) Sheesh.
Your statement above does not apply to me.
For me, all ePUBs need conversion since I want headers and margins. Calibre can't do that, and neither can Sigil (headers anyway). I don't begrudge that of those programs (as I said earlier). They serve a purpose that doesn't fit my scope. No, I still don't like Calibre's output, and still think it's awful for editing (and does not pass
epubcheck), but as I said before, I understand why it's the way it is (except for a few noted exceptions).
So I say one more time:
Headers rock in books! Lock-in sucks for consumers! More headers, less lock-in!
-Pie