Thread: how to automatize routine modifications to epubs?
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Old 03-27-2017, 10:44 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
Then Polish. That will use some of the same features.
The Polish feature, by the look of it, has nothing to do with what I'm after. I don't know why this is such a hard concept to communicate.

I don't want to make a new cover image - based on metadata or anything else.
I don't want to add a new HTML page or jacket to the book.
I don't want to have to repeat some process for every book, one at a time, as a manual step.

I simply want to replace the standard XHTML code that Calibre uses in the first place when it generates a cover page. I want to change that default page's formula so that whenever I convert a Kindle book to EPUB, Calibre will use my HTML instead of whatever it's using now. By definition, that page has to be stored somewhere in Calibre. I just want to know where.

This shouldn't involve using a plugin - just learning the location of an existing file or script. Unless, that is, the XHTML in question is hardcoded into a combiled binary, such that changing it would require recompiling the software... which would be a weird choice.
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