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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Out of curiosity, why do you adjust the margins and fonts and what do you adjust them to? Is it something beyond what Kobo allows in the settings?
I convert all of my books because I buy them from Amazon. I always go through them with Sigil, because sometimes the text isn't justified or the table of contents isn't good enough. |
I convert them for three reasons. First, I want to be able to read my books (even then ones I buy from Kobo) on my my other ePub eReaders (Sonys, Tolinos, Nooks and assorted too many). Second I like a particular font and particular margins and, if I make the changes in Calibre, every one of my books comes up just the way I want them in any eReader I'm using. And third, sometimes the publisher's formatting is really lousy (I especially hate spaces between paragraphs in fiction, especially when there's a lot of dialogue), so I fix that.
I don't know how to use Sigil. I tried it once and it seemed like a really complicated application. But I understand it is a very powerful eBook editor. That said, for now Calibre seems to do what I need. (Not that I won't try to learn Sigil somewhere down the line. Right now I'm learning AsciiDoc (and AsciiDoctor) and I'm impressed. Very easy to make ePubs with it.