Thread: kepubify v3: A fast, standalone EPUB to KEPUB converter (plus covergen/seriesmeta)
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Old 09-03-2020, 12:29 AM   #147
davidfor
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Originally Posted by geek1011 View Post
One small thing to add: kepubify is slightly better at not making books with malformed or unusual HTML worse,
Better than what? You mean the KoboTouchExtended driver? The driver shouldn't make things worse. If it can't do something, it should stop and show an error or send the epub untouched, depending on the option. It does have some error handling, but the stated aim was to transform valid epubs.

But, I am curious to see examples that it makes the HTML worse. If you have some, can you send them to me?
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but the full Calibre conversion attempts to fix that sort of thing (that may be for better or for worse depending on the situation). Calibre is better at fixing malformed TOCs and that sort of thing, and kepubify is better at preserving the original code where possible. Basically, if you encounter formatting issues not in the original EPUB, try using the other converter and see if the problem is still there.
I don't compare what a conversion does to what either the extended driver or kepubify does. Both of these are assuming a working epub as input. Both do attempt to handle problems, but, to different extents. The extended driver doesn't touch the ToC, only the actual text files. And a few things in the OPF.

The conversion is just assuming an input book. It doesn't have to be epub. And the output is largely what would have been seen with a conversion to epub and then the spans added. If this fails, it will be because the input file was rubbish.
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