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Originally Posted by abeonis
I am not sure we must ask Sigil to do everything, and anyway what do we do before it is implemented?
I wrote an AHK_L script that does automatically the following (among other things) :
1. Unzip an epub
2. Create an uuid (AHK_L program)
3. Change the uuid in OPF
4. Update the NCX with new uuid
5. zip the epub
The reason I do that is because I use the new epub file to create a mobi with Kindlegen. I do want to have a different uuid for epub and mobi.
Conclusion: I suggest people here to google ahk_L. You can do amazing things with it, even if you are not a SW developer (my case). It is so easy to take the control of your design flow.
Systemize the routine, humanize the exception.
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Well, that's great if you're using an UUID generator, for whatever reason you're doing it, but as there isn't an centralized repository of UUID's, and no one is using them, I'm not sure I understand why anyone would go to all the trouble. As you have hundreds of books, I suppose I can understand why you'd create your own, but not even Amazon, Nook, etc., are using UUID's. That's why there is always this dead silence to the questions about UUID's; it's all well and good, except: nobody is using them. At best, retailers are using ISBN's, as are libraries.
For us, if someone asks us to embed an UUID--and in 2,000 books, we've never been asked--fine. But in the interim, I certainly wouldn't go to the trouble of creating a random number generator just to slap an unused identifier in an ePUB, myself, and certainly not for MOBI. It's unique (the old, one-in-17-trillion argument, or whatever) and usable only to the person who creates it. If you use them for your directories, for a naming schema, I can see it making sense, but in a commercial environment, it's really extraneous. There's plenty to do in making ePUBs, at least at my shop, without adding additional steps that aren't needed or used for commercial books. I don't think I recall anyone else ever saying, here, that they'd used UUID's. Anyone else recall someone using them?
Hitch