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Brett Merkey · 10-16-2019, 06:19 PM

@JSWolf:
Sounds like we pretty much go down the same list. It always gives me special pleasure to blow away that embedded Contents page. Usually allows getting rid of a nice swath of the CSS file too. For history books, I also get rid of the Index since readers have full text search and I also find images/maps to add. Coding for the Paperwhite and the Kindle Android app also allows the cheap (in labor!) theatrics provided by the pseudos ::first-line / ::first-letter.

Calibre was certainly not designed as an editor but, with its tools and plug-ins, added with a curated store of regexes, it can "do up" a book very quickly.

I will look up that font you mentioned.

10-16-2019, 06:19 PM	#34
Brett Merkey Not Quite Dead Posts: 195 Karma: 654170 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: Paperwhite 4; Galaxy Tab	@JSWolf: Sounds like we pretty much go down the same list. It always gives me special pleasure to blow away that embedded Contents page. Usually allows getting rid of a nice swath of the CSS file too. For history books, I also get rid of the Index since readers have full text search and I also find images/maps to add. Coding for the Paperwhite and the Kindle Android app also allows the cheap (in labor!) theatrics provided by the pseudos ::first-line / ::first-letter. Calibre was certainly not designed as an editor but, with its tools and plug-ins, added with a curated store of regexes, it can "do up" a book very quickly. I will look up that font you mentioned. Last edited by Brett Merkey; 10-16-2019 at 06:23 PM.