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Sorry, your comment was following on from discussion of the driver. I assumed you meant the changes came from that.
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Ok.
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Looks like it is replaced with opf:meta. Or at least that is what is in the epub3 I just created.
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Yes, I think that's what it is now, but I haven't seen it either. I think it needs more visibility and clarity in the spec, as you're the only other person I've talked to who even recognized it.
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I clean the books and make sure the metadata is correct. But, I don't care about the layout of the OPF or NCX. About the only thing I do in the OPF is to set the language to "en-GB" so the spelling checker shows less errors if the book appears to use UK English. And that's basically if there is more "colour" than "color".
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I clean everything: the html (who in their right mind uses divs for paragraphs, unclosed style tags, self-closing title tags, and a nbsp instead of normal spaces), CSS (you don't need to put ! important on everything and assign ids each overriding the font to each sentence), old, ncx (the navigation docs the publishers create are atrocious! out of ordered, duplicated indexes!). All epubs I own are consistent and pass all the validators.
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Ok, that's a difference in viewpoint. To me, deciding which file and where tends to be the responsibility of the controlling script.
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Yes. To me, the right balance is having tools support simple recursive conversion of unconverted files, and doing the rest in the script.
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It was for other readers. I'm a bit tired of the, "But I thought I had to install it" response after someone complains about books turning up as kepubs.
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That annoys me too
. And the question: "how do I install kepubify"! Everyone (well, everyone who isn't reading this) on Windows is so used to installers and wizards for everything, they don't appreciate portable apps! It drives me nuts.
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I'm sure the firmware doesn't read the epub3 metadata at the moment. But, if I can find it in a book I got from Kobo, I can justify a bit of a push to read it. And hopefully fix some of the other things at the same time.
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Yes. I'll see if I can find it too, and if I do, I'll also add support to seriesmeta as well.
EDIT: P.S. And regarding the conversion speeds: when I did some testing a year ago, an average ~300pp novel takes kepubify .4s to convert vs 13s for the Calibre plugin. Large manuals like The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup takes kepubify 6s to convert vs 14-20 min for the Calibre plugin (it gets slow at either the css stuff or the span stuff, and it stalls 10% of the time, that might be a bug). Also, kepubify handles malformed epubs (broken opf, invalid html) better than Calibre most of the time.