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Tex2002ans · 02-22-2017, 01:35 AM

Calibre has a compare EPUBs built in:

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/diff.html

Open up your EPUB in Calibre's Editor, then press File > Compare to another book, and choose the one you want to compare to.

EPUBs are just HTML files in a ZIP file. You can just unzip the EPUB and use all the different Code Comparison programs to compare files:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...mparison_tools

and there are probably quite a few online code comparison tools.

I personally use/prefer Beyond Compare (Paid, proprietary):

http://www.scootersoftware.com/

I found it worked better than the other tools I tested. (Working on large Non-Fiction books with large paragraphs.) Some other tools I tested misaligned very easily, and the entire comparison algorithm would get thrown off beyond that point.

If you are working on something like Fiction with shorter paragraphs, those other tools may work absolutely perfectly for you.

02-22-2017, 01:35 AM	#2
Tex2002ans Wizard Posts: 2,306 Karma: 13057279 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kobo Forma, Nook	Calibre has a compare EPUBs built in: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/diff.html Open up your EPUB in Calibre's Editor, then press File > Compare to another book, and choose the one you want to compare to. EPUBs are just HTML files in a ZIP file. You can just unzip the EPUB and use all the different Code Comparison programs to compare files: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...mparison_tools and there are probably quite a few online code comparison tools. I personally use/prefer Beyond Compare (Paid, proprietary): http://www.scootersoftware.com/ I found it worked better than the other tools I tested. (Working on large Non-Fiction books with large paragraphs.) Some other tools I tested misaligned very easily, and the entire comparison algorithm would get thrown off beyond that point. If you are working on something like Fiction with shorter paragraphs, those other tools may work absolutely perfectly for you. Last edited by Tex2002ans; 02-22-2017 at 01:50 AM.