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Originally Posted by rpspringuel
Yes, I'm talking about AZW3s. Since I have a Kindle I usually edit those files directly to save myself the conversion step. I never realized that the editor would work different with an EPUB.
Guess I'll add this to the list of reasons why I should be doing all my editting in EPUB format instead of AZW3. Don't know if it'll be enough to make me change my ways, but at least I know what the issue is. Thanks for the information.
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If you just need to make a quick tweak to an AZW3, I wouldn't hesitate to edit them using calibre's editor. Or if you know you're going to finish your editing in one session, there's no problem there either. But there's some things that just aren't going to survive multiple editing sessions on the same AZW3.
It's not so much that the editor works differently than with EPUB, it's just that the AZW3 (the KF8 format, really) is binary, and it needs to be unpacked/exploded into an OEBPS-type structure for easy editing and then rebuilt once that editing's done. In some ways (but not all), you're starting over with each editing session.