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Originally Posted by Brett Merkey
@DNSB,
I always convert the slop I get from Amazon to ePub first thing. That ugly code I quoted? Calibre took the mess, divided it into rational pages, provided heading structural code and created a style sheet while eliminating almost all the inline manure.
I still have plenty of edit enjoyment left to do on the book, but Calibre did the heaviest hauling with one click.
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Yes. If that is the book I think it is, it's worth the effort, I got it and fixed it up in epub for my son who reads on kobo who likes such things. I think there are 2 volume of d day from German perspectives both good.
As you say. Once you have calibre set up to convert and add CSS, remove stuff to suit your preferences , there is very little left to fix. I have it strip fonts and strip explicit line heights so that the reader device can manage those.
I do find that the free, cheap stuff from Amazon is more likely to not have proper chapter structures and toc , but those get easier to do with practice and a little regex. It is very obvious sometimes that a book is a lazy conversion of a word document