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Originally Posted by jswinden
As far as converting with any program goes, that old saying holds true: garbage in equals garbage out. A lot of eBooks are not properly formatted in the first place because it seems that many publishers/authors/creators simply lack the skills and knowledge to do so. If the eBook is really badly formatted then converting it will probably compound any issues.
As far as PDFs go, they are like cat pooh. Dig a hole and bury them as deep as possible. 
As far as calibre conversion goes, it does cause bloat. It reminds me a bit of the way MS Word converts a DOC file into HTML. MS Word creates a huge file with style (CSS) wrappings for nearly every word in the document. While calibre does a much more efficient job than a program like MS Word, it still creates a hellish CSS file that is in most cases unnecessary and very difficult to read. |
I don't have any problem with Calibre style sheets. You can always view the source code of the book to figure out what each style is. I do that by going to Search & Replace in Calibre and clicking on the wizard button. It will show the source code of the entire book.
If a book contains font size tags Calibre will remove them and then convert it to a style instead which is much easier to edit then going through and manually removing every single tag from the source code. I find this a must have when working with most ebooks.
Calibre cleans up the html tags in the ebook more then I think most people realize.
I Prefer to use Word to html when editing an ebook. I remove the font definitions manually but other then that Calibre cleans it all nicely up.
I can use word to fix broken sentences, Change Headers and basically just make it prettier with just using search and replace. It only take a couple of minutes.
