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Old 03-22-2015, 07:01 PM   #25752
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
It is marginally better than a fingernail-sized image of a penguin -- at least HC covers usually include the title.
Yeah, OK; it's true that fixing the book fortunately doesn't take the time it did in 2011 (if it was fixable at all, using Sigil, or, horror of horrors, unzipping or rezipping), but it should just be perfect. Even the metadata wasn't.

I think there are still too many steps needed when buying ebooks, and you want them to be perfect...

- Buy the book (Kobo now has a cart, I've seen; finally).
- Download the ASCM-file.
- Download the EPUB using the ASCM-file in ADE 2.x.
- Import the book into Calibre.
- Clean up ADE.
- Save the book back to disk to create an un-DRM'd original version.
- Now fix the book (add cover, remove empty lines between paragraphs, fix metadata, etc).
- Polish the book.
- Send it to the e-reader.
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