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Originally Posted by patrik
Could it be that your client uploaded the epub to a site to "check" it but the site actually is a conversion site of sorts, and he thought he did a check but did a conversion?
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patrik:
With this client, anything is possible. I'm so gobsmacked by the "other" ePUB file, that I'd believe almost anything.
But even if he DID do a conversion--wherever that may have been--what happened to half the damn content? As I said, for many of the chapters, the chapter opens, the first paragraph of the chapter breaks off, and that's IT. Surely, even THIS client would have noticed that 80% of his damn book disappeared, wouldn't you think?
I've had clients that "helped" by using Calibre. I've had clients that decided "oh, it's just one edit," and "fixed" their files using the NookPress editor--and totally trashed the book. I've had some score of clients that uploaded the ePUB at KDP, and not the MOBI. Oh, and, yah, you betcha, the other way around, too.
Usually, I can figure out what the hell is going on. Hell, I practically have a degree in Screwed-up-eBook-forensics. (After all, we've done 3K+ books, and in the course of that, seen another thousand; turned down I-don't-know-how-many screwed up books.)
But this one? Just don't know
WTH happened. I really don't. It's a poser. The client is either diffident, or doesn't want to admit that s/he doesn't know what happened, either, or...DANG.
Hitch