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Originally Posted by un_pogaz
I fully understand that PageEdit is a program totally different from Sigil, simply, I think that its integration could potentially be better (than the"Open With..." or "External XHTML editor").
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Originally Posted by un_pogaz
I came to Sigil because it was WYSIWYG, I had problems with BookView, [...]
How many people are still at step 1 or 2 of my journey? Probably a lot more than you think.
Many will abandon Sigil because BookView has disappeared and he can't imagine any other way of working than in WYSIWYG (and we never will be).
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We all started out as complete noobs. I remember when I first started reading EPUBs and found Sigil all those years ago. I came to it because it was an easy way to fix a handful of typos in the books I was reading + took care of the OPF and all the other EPUB crap without me having to manually ZIP things again after making corrections.
It was Open Source (huge plus), ran on every OS (huge plus), and let me see the book itself without having to look through HTML code soup, or having to constantly drag back to ADE to make sure I didn't botch anything.
You were even able to do very minor corrections in Book View (like add a space, delete a letter, comma->period) without making the book explode... and then once I became much more comfortable with EPUB, then went digging into the HTML.
Many readers just needed that easy GUI "fixing"... but if you look at some of the HTML out of Word abominations, InDesign, or HTML from convert-my-docx-to-any-format-dot-com, even I wouldn't know where the heck to start! (Well, I do now... but you get the point. We're talking about noobs!
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I did a Google search for 'epub editors' just after GG posted, none of those cnet, softonic download sites came up in first couple of pages. And only a couple of the half-dozen or so '10 best epub editors' pages even mentioned Sigil, and those that did didn't mention WYSIWYG.
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I definitely ran across these things over the past 8 years...
Perhaps now it's being drowned out by even more of the Vellum, Kindle Create, iBooks Author, -type "drag-and-drop, look how 'easy' it is to create a pile of garbage and call it an ebook" programs. :P