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Originally Posted by Doitsu
I wasn't surprised by the mostly negative feedback that I received, however, what still puzzles me is the large number of followers of "pure doctrine" who kept repeating the mantra "Sigil is an ePub editor" and more or less said that even considering enhancements to support other formats borders on heresy and would surely screw up Sigil without giving any technical reasons.
I had expected more of a "hacker mentality." I.e. a keen interest in tweaking and enhancing existing tools by adding new useful features that would make life simpler for many people.
One could almost get the impression that anybody who doesn't create ePubs deserves to get punished for choosing a "lesser format."
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We are being punished it seems. Amazon is trying to fragment the market and doing a good job at it. We don't need multiple formats and yet here we are again with yet another format we don't need and don't want. If Amazon went ePub with the same DRM, then all would be well. But they didn't and all isn't well.
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I certainly don't use 6 tools. My main problem is that it's not possible to directly convert ePubs with Kindlegen, because they don't contain an inline TOC. (I could use Calibre, but since I often got unexpected and undesired results I prefer Kindlegen.) This means I have to unzip the ePub file, extract the ncx file, and generate an inline TOC from the ncx file.
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What sort of unexpected results do you get from a Calibre converted Mobi (ePub > Mobi)? I find Calibre does a better job overall then the Mobipocket tools and now that you agree that Kindlegen is junk, why not learn how to use Calibre?