[danshand84]

Hello,

I am new to this forum. I came to the Sigil forum to ask for help because I am all of a sudden unable to open my epub book. This happened to me another time with another book.

I am using Sigil to add highlighting and comments to epub books. Since this is not available natively in epub format (that I am aware of) I open the book in Sigil, and edit the HTML directly, adding inline CSS for highlighting/bolding/underlining and more html for comments. This way my notes and highlights are part of the ebook. I also use Moon+ Reader on my android phone, but prefer to make my highlights and notes directly in the book because any annotations/highlights done in Moon+ Reader are only available in Moon+ Reader. I even asked for help from the Moon+ Reader developer who was kind enough to make changes to Moon so that my changes done in Sigil would be more visible in Moon Reader.

However after editing in Sigil, now my epub book can not be opened in either Sigil or in the Firefox epub reader. I found this recent post in this forum indicating that sometimes Sigil trashes files:

Sigil has trashed more files (Multi-page thread 1 2 3)
JimmyG (04-22-2013)

I also noticed in above mentioned post that Tidy might be related. I did allow Sigil to fix html errors itself because sometimes when it complained I couldn't find the error.

Is this what is happening to me? Files within the epub book are getting damaged due to allowing Sigil to fix the errors... or maybe for some other reason? If so, what can I use to open the epub file to check the individual files...I know which html files I was editing. I don't really understand how epub works regarding file stucture. I know there are html, css, and other files within an epub file, but I don't know how they are all put together into an epub file. Is it something like a .zip file, or something else?

Thanks for your help.

Dan