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Does Sigil make sense for ePub curation
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yes. Because with Pageview you can easily remove all formatting (and images) by pasting as text. With Pageview you can also paste a figure as a link to an external source because EPUB is based on an HTML5 layout.
Because an EPUB can be created in all kinds of ways and can be converted in all kinds of ways, a script is an endless path of constantly finding and solving problems in the script. An EPUB conversion script therefore seems to me to be a salvation route.
Another option is to search and replace in the EPUB page to replace or remove the formatting codes. This can be done in Sigil itself or via an external HTML editor via copy and paste. However, that is very labor intensive and probably takes a multiple of the time to remove all formatting by a simple paste as text approach and manually enter the layout you want.
Because simple is the nicest and easiest solution, I advise you to put a layout you want in a CSS file. This offers you the opportunity to implement this throughout the EPUB with a modification to your CSS layout file. Small is beautiful, which is achievable in Sigil