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AlexBell · 07-08-2016, 10:35 PM

Thanks for all your responses - I've been so busy proofreading that I haven't been back on the forum. I obviously have a lot to read through and digest.

I may need to consider my method of doing ebooks. I don't use Word; I use LibreOffice. I don't use Sigil; I use the CoffeeCup HTML editor I used when I dabbled in website design years ago - though I often use Notepad++ first. CoffeeCup does have a spell checker

My usual practice is to find I book I want to do on the Internet Archive or elsewhere, and download the pdf and ePub 'ebook' files. Then I open up the ePub ebook file and edit the HTML files within.

Another thing I've learned recently is to take more trouble to find the best possible original file. Some of the pdfs on the Internet Archive are just awful, making it much more likely that I'll read a comma as a period, and vice versa and so on. So where I can I use the HathiTrust version to check against - their version is usually excellent, and they seem to have nearly everything I want. But of course one cannot download the files.

Thanks for the suggestions about fonts; I normally use Amasis when proofreading, but will experiment with the other font families and see if that helps.

07-08-2016, 10:35 PM	#17
AlexBell Wizard Posts: 3,413 Karma: 13369310 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Launceston, Tasmania Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet	Thanks for all your responses - I've been so busy proofreading that I haven't been back on the forum. I obviously have a lot to read through and digest. I may need to consider my method of doing ebooks. I don't use Word; I use LibreOffice. I don't use Sigil; I use the CoffeeCup HTML editor I used when I dabbled in website design years ago - though I often use Notepad++ first. CoffeeCup does have a spell checker My usual practice is to find I book I want to do on the Internet Archive or elsewhere, and download the pdf and ePub 'ebook' files. Then I open up the ePub ebook file and edit the HTML files within. Another thing I've learned recently is to take more trouble to find the best possible original file. Some of the pdfs on the Internet Archive are just awful, making it much more likely that I'll read a comma as a period, and vice versa and so on. So where I can I use the HathiTrust version to check against - their version is usually excellent, and they seem to have nearly everything I want. But of course one cannot download the files. Thanks for the suggestions about fonts; I normally use Amasis when proofreading, but will experiment with the other font families and see if that helps.