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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
ODF is not suitable for E-Books. It is tied to the internals of OpenOffice software, which is based on an old German StarOffice software. Its document model always was different from what is logical for a book.
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Actually that's all nonsense.
No Wordprocessor format is directly suitable for ebook. You pick styles and headings that are suitable for ebook. Then you use a conversion or authoring tool to change the source for epub, mobi, azw etc.
I've used dozens of WP programs since 1980. All can produce books, magazines, newspapers, reports, web pages, ebooks etc. All are rubbish for program text editing.
Traditionally you use the source with a different tool to produce magazines, newspapers, web pages or ebooks.
Some authors still use Wordstar (GRR Martin) or Wordperfect on DOS.
Sigil and Calibre are good tools.
PDF for paper printed books needs no user intervention.
I can use MS Word or LibreOffice Writer with Calibre and settings I've made default to produce mobi, AZW and epub that are all perfect with no editing after import to Calibre.
You certainly can't produce ebooks direct with MS Word, and LibreOffice PDF export is better than Word's. There is a built in epub export in LibreOffice Writer 6.x which is better than Amazon's limited Kindle Create tool, but both are inferior to Calibre or Sigil (Sigil is more like an early DTP program for ebook rather than paper, so not as automatic just import and click like Calibre.