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Originally Posted by jhowell
I wonder whether link validation works for anyone. I assume that they tested it before release.
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I just upgraded to 3.37 to test it out.
I ran
File > Run Quality Checks (beta)... seemed to complete fine. None of my books crashed (although I only tested about 8).
1. On a book with working URLs. It popped up a window + output a CSV that said:
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Quality checks completed. No issues found.
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2. I went testing a few of my Non-Fiction books, and finally got a hit:
Checks didn't take long at all...
But it seems like it may reach out to a handful (?) of external URLs at a time. (I threw it on the 1500+ URL behemoth... but gave up after it ran for quite a while.
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Probably smart... since Calibre's External Links Checker goes on a mass spree... got me temp banned from a few sites. :P
It seems like these checks don't match what you can get dinged for with KQNs though... like some those we discussed in the
"Amazon objecting to page breaks" thread.
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Since I thought my final EPUBs are much too clean, I grabbed an EPUB that was in the process of being cleaned from DOCX... and ran across this bug.
3. I didn't even link the URLs yet, so the EPUB code was this:
Code:
<p>https://www.youtube.com/user/misesmedia</p>
Kindle Previewer then complained about every "dead" link:
On a similar note, I added a broken internal link:
Code:
<a href="../Text/Giberish.xhtml">Code</a>
and it did not catch that...
I tested a broken footnote... didn't catch it either. epubcheck caught and complained about both busted internal links.