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Old 11-09-2020, 01:07 AM   #1310
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
A quick and dirty fix is to do a calibre epub to epub conversion.
A slightly cleaner and slower fix, provided the book is arranged in chapters, is to open the ebook in the calibre editor and manually split it at a chapter heading.

If the book has a table of contents, open that and do some rough math. Using DNSB’s example, in which all the text is in one big 1.1 MB file, try to split it into four or five pieces; you want each file to be 250K or less. So, if the book has forty chapters, try splitting at the tops of chapters 11, 21, and 31 – so click on each of those entries, use the split tool (icon located under the preview pane) to make the divisions, and the ebook navigation should square itself away automatically.

Without a TOC, you can search the text for “chapter” (case insensitive) and eyeball the vertical scroll bar to find a good split point that way. (Or just split on every chapter, for that matter. Won’t hurt anything, but it’s a little more work.)

One thing to watch out for with both methods are ID attributes or page breaks near the chapter header. You want to make sure you split right after a page break (if you spot one) and/or before any ID attributes, if possible.

It’s a relatively low learning curve, and once you’ve done it a couple of times, it’s usually pretty easy.
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