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Originally Posted by BobC
Another approach might be to install the Kobo Extended driver in Calibre then upload your book as a kepub meaning that it would use the ACCESS rather than the Adobe engine for display.
You may have a better experience with that.
Another point is that stuff from Gutenberg can usually be improved by re-splitting the book as Gutenberg seems to split on file size rather than chapters meaning that opening and moving within a book can be slow. I merge and re-split all my Gutenberg sourced epubs using Sigil before loading them onto my Glo (along with other tidying up) - it enhances the reading experience as each new chapter will start on a fresh screen.
BobC
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Ah, interesting.. I'd heard/read about k-epub's and the corresponding Calibre plugin. I'll give that a try if all else fails.
I do have a copy of Sigil installed on another system but I've only used it for a couple of hours to address one very specific need.
I'm a little unclear about what you mean by merging/splitting epubs. When you say "files" do you mean the html files inside the zipped collection..? What I mean is that I use Vim for editing and if I point Vim to a Project Gutenberg epub, I'm first presented with a list of files and directories with the mimetype file right at the top, naturally, and then a directory whose name is a number, presumably the PG reference of the book in their system.. something like 14324/ or 22315/ for instance. This directory contains a number of .htm files (and optionally .jpg's or .png's).
Do you mean you use Sigil to rearrange the contents of these files so that you end up with one .html file per chapter..?
Would that also address this annoying problem I have noticed where for no good reason you occasionally have a page with a bunch of blank lines at the bottom, even though you're not at the end of a chapter.. even not at the end of a paragraph for that matter..?
Is there any hands-on documentation that explains how you would go about doing this merging/splitting..?
Thanks,
CJ