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Originally Posted by odedta
Actually, I was just checking and I see someone picked up the development so I'm curious to how is it. Why do you find Sigil better than Calibre?
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Yes, it has long had two active developers and an active Sigil forum on this website. It is now far advanced than when I first picked it up in 2012.
I'm writing books for publication. Sigil is designed precisely to do that, whereas Calibre is a library-management tool. (Kovid evidently developed Calibre Editor to fill the gap when Sigil was briefly orphaned, but I've never tried the Editor.) Besides, Amazon is notorious for rejecting books created by Calibre. It may not be a large percentage, but it is a long-standing problem.
Give Sigil a try. It is a powerful and sophisticated program, and Preview Panel for all practical purposes makes it WYSIWYG. It creates the "logical" or virtual TOC on the fly, so neatly that it scarcely needs any attention.
I still use epub2, validated by the Flight Crew plug-in. I upload the epub (without an included cover) to Amazon's KDP platform, and with a cover to Draft2Digital and Google Play.
Of course, if you aren't actively publishing books, Calibre may be just what you require. I regularly use it to convert epubs to mobi format, to read on my Fire tablet. Less often, I use it to reverse-engineer an ebook and get it into Word format for revision.