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Old 07-19-2017, 02:33 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by AlanHK View Post
Is there a reliable way to convert epub3 to epub2?
I know that information may theoretically be lost; I'm fine with that.
You could do an epub-to-epub conversion with Calibre, which will automatically convert epub3 books to epub2 books.
However, this process will add Calibre styles and metadata.

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Sigil acts weirdly in some files that have epub3 features.
I never had any problems with epub3 books. What specific problems did you encounter?
(It'd help KevinH and DiapDealer to fix these problems, if you sent them one of these books via PM.)

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And if I do epubcheck it spews out hundreds of errors, though the file may display fine in practice, making it useless to diagnose real problems.
If you want to edit an epub3 book that someone has accidentally saved as an epub2 book, exporting it as an epub3 book with Sigil will usually fix most of these errors.
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