Quote:
Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I buy my books from Amazon and read on a Kobo, so I already have to convert from azw to epub. When I do that, I always give the book at least a cursory glance with Sigil, looking for little things like spaces between paragraphs or weird indents (I use .3in for my indents).
Like Diap suggests, I edit the books because I have the ability to. It doesn't necessarily bother me to read books with different formatting than I prefer. But editing the books in Sigil is a nice time filler when I'm relaxing in the evening with the boob tube on.
Some self published books have pretty bad formatting, but if the book sounded interesting enough to purchase, I don't mind cleaning it up. For one thing, it has taught me to use Sigil.
|
Funny thing is, I was not aware of Sigil's existence before joining MR. Way back before the Calibre editor (and before azw3) I used a mobi unpack plugin (can't remember the exact name), painstakingly edited the html in Notepad and then packed it together again. Now
that was a bother. It would have been much easier to convert the mobi into epub, edit it in Sigil and convert back (that's what I immediately started to do after the Calibre editor arrived on the scene. I still do it this way when I get the occasional mobi file from Amazon. Azw3 files I edit directly, of course.). I've never used Sigil because when I learned it existed I was already used to editing my books in the editor.