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Originally Posted by HarryT
If your files are in Mobi format, the sole advantage of converting to KF8 (AZW3) would be that you could then very easily edit a book in Calibre's editor if you wanted to change something in it. Calibre can't edit Mobi files. That is a very big advantage - the editor is easy to use and I very often edit my books if they have something I don't like (eg a wide space between the paragraphs).
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You may be aware of this, but the “Extra CSS” box allows you to apply a lot of those style changes without having to edit the book by hand. The huge advantage to this, from my perspective, is that Calibre will remember your settings, so if you have to reconvert for some reason, you won't have to redo the changes you did by hand.
For example, if the margins are created by a CSS rule:
Code:
p.ind { margin-top: 0.3em; }
you can fix that by simply doing this in the “Extra CSS” area:
Code:
p.ind { margin-top: 0; }
I use this to fix broken margins, line heights, indentation, and so on (there are some terrible-looking books out there!).
The built-in reader allows you to quickly see what rules apply by right-clicking and selecting “Inspect”, making it a fairly painless process, insofar as fixing bad typesetting can be painless.