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Originally Posted by theducks
Why do a same format convert after an edit? Conversion introduces some change.
IMHO Conversion should be done FROM a edited EPUB to some other format
The Calibre editor Validation can help fix all issues that do not require lost or mangled code corrections (that is your job  to sus out what went south) |
Like I said, converting from the edited epub to epub fixes some of the remaining problems. It fixes the coding in the cover image page, it sorts the .css file alphabetically and changes some of the codes in the file when there are CSS rules that are the same, and a few other things. It doesn't hurt anything to do that, and I like it when it fixes the coding in the cover image page.
Anyway, when you say the Calibre editor Validation can help fix all issues, it hasn't fixed this particular issue (that is, if you are talking about the Check Book function in Calibre...I can't find anything about a Calibre Editor Validation). These books have 300 to over 400 pages, but show only 2 pages after the conversion. This has only occurred with a few books, so I suspect there is some incorrect coding in those files that Calibre's Check Book didn't find. These are retail versions that are very poorly coded (as is the case with so many of the retail epub files), and that's why I went through all of his books and fixed a lot of the problems. I ended up not converting those few books, so it's no big deal, but I'm still curious why converting those files resulted in those few files showing only 2 pages. Converting an epub file twice shouldn't result in this problem.
Thanks for your response!