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gracie · 08-04-2012, 07:17 AM

There's probably a big discussion of this somewhere in here, but I'm not finding it, so if I'm beating a dead horse, send me over there, please...

I have a Nook and read epubs. Normally, the formatting is OK, and I generally use Coolreader and have done a little fiddling to make the book look as I like. Works fine.

I recently started reading an epub that APPEARS to have embedded page numbers, headers, and footers. It's still readable, but the extraneous text makes it very choppy and disrupts the reading process.

Initially, I thought maybe it was a book I'd gotten in Kindle format and converted in calibre, but I can't find any indication of that, so I THINK I actually got it as an epub. It ALSO appears to have hyphenation embedded, so I'm now the publisher may have just taken a paper layout and converted it to epub, complete with all the formatting they'd have used for the paper printing........

Has this happened to other people? Is it common? And, is there a way for me to modify the epub to remove all the extra junk so I have a more readable file? If so, recommendations on what (hopefully free) tool would work?

08-04-2012, 07:17 AM	#1
gracie Enthusiast Posts: 39 Karma: 290320 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Nook Color	Books with headers and footers? There's probably a big discussion of this somewhere in here, but I'm not finding it, so if I'm beating a dead horse, send me over there, please... I have a Nook and read epubs. Normally, the formatting is OK, and I generally use Coolreader and have done a little fiddling to make the book look as I like. Works fine. I recently started reading an epub that APPEARS to have embedded page numbers, headers, and footers. It's still readable, but the extraneous text makes it very choppy and disrupts the reading process. Initially, I thought maybe it was a book I'd gotten in Kindle format and converted in calibre, but I can't find any indication of that, so I THINK I actually got it as an epub. It ALSO appears to have hyphenation embedded, so I'm now the publisher may have just taken a paper layout and converted it to epub, complete with all the formatting they'd have used for the paper printing........ Has this happened to other people? Is it common? And, is there a way for me to modify the epub to remove all the extra junk so I have a more readable file? If so, recommendations on what (hopefully free) tool would work?