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Old 11-29-2014, 08:07 AM   #872
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
Jon, as you are with jackets so am I with covers, the reason I first used Modify was to remove them. I like to have a jacket with all the metadata in the book, because the readers I have on my Tab are limited to displaying the DC elements only.
The two things I'm practically guaranteed to do on any book are hack the cover-page code and standardize the OPF metadata. I have my own template for both, and "fixing" the metadata usually involves going online to find the missing pieces. For instance, I love having the dc:description field populated with the publisher's blurb, in case I need a reminder, and I frequently have to change the text of the author's name from "Last, First" to "First Last" and add the opf:file-as="Last, First" attribute. I'm also funny about dc:identifier, in that I prefer for it to be the ISBN (where available) instead of a UUID, and I set all my series book titles to "Series X: Title" - where X is the place in the series, with a leading zero if necessary. That last mod is critical for me, as it keeps me organized. Then there are the CSS mods, where if the book uses something other than medium/default for the size of the main text, I go through and rescale everything.

I'd love to have a plugin that did all of that for me, but it's a complicated enough process that it requires human oversight.
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