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Montana Harper · 12-23-2016, 04:30 PM

Is there a way to automate editing a group of epubs to perform the same action on all of them? I've been getting books from InstaFreebie, which inserts a page with my name on it into the book, and that bugs me. I can manually go into each book and delete the page (which always has the same name in the epub structure), but I'd rather be able to automate the process so that Calibre just deletes that particular page (if it exists) from all selected books.

Anyone know if this is possible, maybe with a plugin or something? (I use both Polish Books and Modify ePub and it seems like the kind of thing that would be in their wheelhouse, but they're hard-coded as far as what they will edit/manipulate.)

TIA!

12-23-2016, 04:30 PM	#1
Montana Harper book geek (she/her) Posts: 116 Karma: 2029154 Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Pacific Northwest Device: iPhone 16 Pro Max, Kindle Paperwhite (10th gen)	Automate epub editing? Is there a way to automate editing a group of epubs to perform the same action on all of them? I've been getting books from InstaFreebie, which inserts a page with my name on it into the book, and that bugs me. I can manually go into each book and delete the page (which always has the same name in the epub structure), but I'd rather be able to automate the process so that Calibre just deletes that particular page (if it exists) from all selected books. Anyone know if this is possible, maybe with a plugin or something? (I use both Polish Books and Modify ePub and it seems like the kind of thing that would be in their wheelhouse, but they're hard-coded as far as what they will edit/manipulate.) TIA!