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Originally Posted by murg
You can come up with one on your own.
This does involve reformatting the ebooks. Which isn't that bad in Sigil. Usually. // snip // The goal isn't to reformat the ebooks to look just like the original, but to fit your basic formatting requirements.
Most ebooks (99%+) don't have any real fancy formatting.
The basic elements in a reformat are: paragraphs, chapter headings, section breaks, italic, bold, small, blockquotes.
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i think that captures my intent quite nicely. i'd like to reformat to a simple readable "plain text divided into TOC'd chapters", and nothing else. i probably wouldn't care if i lost bold, italic, footnotes, etc. hey, if a book can't stand on its own without that, it's probably not a book i'd want to read anyways :P (elitist? eek, i hope not)
i'll try a few things with a random ebook and see how complex the various processes are. most books i buy from Google or Kobo and leave them as-is, so really this would only affect a small handful of books i read (or it would be a cleanup of a backup of something i already bought).
sometimes, i wonder what would happen if Kobo or Google went out of business - would the books i bought disappear? that type of "paranoia" makes me grab an epub of whatever i bought and keep it just-in-case, and if i have it i might as well clean it up. i don't know WHY, but sometimes the downloaded epub doesn't display the same way as the native book directly from the store/viewer.