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Originally Posted by DownWithIcarus
A Part II: Oh, I didn't notice that before. That's a very useful tip, thank you. I have always used html, but I will definitely switch.
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As something that might also help you detect cases where an author has gutted their story, a trick I use in my library is that I have separate word-count columns for the word count reported by the site and the word count reported by the "count words" plugin. And then I've got a third column that shows the ratio between those two, which I can sort to find stories where the ratio is suspiciously askew one way or the other. This only works if you're doing the "update epub" option, otherwise the whole story gets overwritten and the two numbers will always match fairly closely (though never exactly, of course).
If you want to get *really* paranoid, you could create a custom column called "old word count" and every time you want to do an update you could first run a regex that copies the current word count value into it. Then, after updating, you'll be able to see what changed. If one of the stories got gutted despite using "update epub", dig up a copy from your library's backup and restore it (everyone should keep backups of their important data.
) Calibre can save search-and-replace operations so it should only take a few extra mouse clicks to do this each time.