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Originally Posted by rashkae
Another idea, if you have an problematic epub, is to try an Epub to Epub conversion in Calibre. Calibre has built up a vast repertoir of common pitfalls it 'fixes' on the fly when doing this. If course, GIBO still applies, so results may vary.
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I tried that on problematic Gutenberg ePubs. Didn't work. I'm sure it would if you added the appropriate rules.
It was simpler just to have sane ePub conversion defaults and convert the mobi from Gutenberg, as I need it anyway.
If that is problematic (rare), I can export and reformat in LibreOffice rather than peering at CSS. I've had to do it with one Kindle book bought from Amazon. It was poor on a Kindle too. It also had proof errors suggesting it was OCR from a scan. I forget title, but it was one of the books Jane Austin mentions in Northanger Abbey. Generally Archive.ie books are not proofed and some cheaply done old books sold in Kindle format on Amazon are worse proofed than the same title on Gutenberg.
Contrary to the belief of companies using DRM and the DMCA (USA only), copyright DOES expire, though Disney & Friends keep getting it extended.
Note that the words can be out of copyright, but a book may have new formatting (rather than being a facsimile) and/or new illustrations, or
new proof corrections, making it a fresh copyright derived work.