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Originally Posted by davidfor
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I feel this thread has too much in it that is borderline personal attack with pointless arguments over weather it is a bug or a misfeature or whatever, and I don't need to (or should not) respond to it. I want to keep (my) discussion here constructive.
I just want my epubs fixed or converted in a way that makes them pleasant to read on my kobo while making the smallest number of changes to them possible with the least amount of work on my part. Discussion over weather it is a waste of time or not is pointless, as I've already (regrettably) spent the time, and (gratefully) most of my library is now fixed so I don't have any more test cases left.
So, until I either do another bulk import, or find another formatting issue common in a lot of books, or find something else to automate, or find more cases of this problem that were missed somehow, I'm done discussing that side of things.
I'd like to keep this constructive. I'd like to continue discussing what features / changes could be made to modify/polish epub and quality check. I just went through the entire thread and made a list of possible features that have been mentioned. I'll keep updating that list until someone has a use for it.
If I see anyone step forward to update these plugins, or better, I find time to start looking into it, I'll post my list of mentioned feature requests. (Or I suppose I could start a new thread and post the list at the top of the thread.)
Right now, the list is a bit disorganized and should be cleaned up and compared against actual existing features, and I'll add to it if I see anything new mentioned.
My next personal frustration is that I have so many epubs and pdfs with missing or badly formed TOCs.
The toc editor built into calibre only works on epubs, and for a lot of poorly formed epubs, does not do a good job of autogenerating ToCs -- I have several books (converted to epub) that the autogenerated pdf is about 50% bad links.
I've partially written code that will extract metadata from a PDF, import a hand generated TOC, and re-insert that into the pdf. Unfortunately, creating the toc is a bit of a laborious manual process, even if you can 90% copy and paste it from the text of the pdf. It might be interesting to somehow leverage the UI of the existing TOC editor in calibre to assist with this process or design something better. It's an idea I've been kicking around for a while.
Also, someone mentioned leveraging existing calibre library features that didn't exist when modify epub / quality check were created. I'd be interested in looking at that, is there a specific API reference somewhere that focuses on epub (or pdf) manipulation? If I do dig into this, that would be a good place to start.