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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Yes, she is and so am I. There is absolutely no reason to switch over besides personal preference. I am still working with Sigil and it works more than fine. There is no feature currently in Calibre that I miss in Sigil. Just that Sigil is not maintained anymore does not make it stop working.
What I really don't like is that you can create an invalid (according to the specs) ePUB in the Calibre Editor and that the check-book function will not complain about it. The explanation from Kovid that if a non-compliance does not create an issue in the devices (as far as he knows), he is fine with it, does not cut it. If you want to publish an ePUB, most services require full compliance.
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No one is stopping you from running a calibre-edited book through epubcheck.
calibre's job is to facilitate the creation of working epubs. The epub compliance specs have (as Kovid likes to point out) nothing to do with that.
Why should the calibre bundle a useless check that does not help it do its job, because the publishers insist on the placebo effect it provides, and inflict said check on everyone who uses it (creating unnecessary scares), merely to save the subset of users the effort of separately validating the book for upload to a distributor?