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Old 12-19-2020, 06:10 PM   #23
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
Haha, yes. When I got my first ereader nearly ten years ago, I was perfectly fine with just downloading and reading (I did make backups of my books, but that was all). It was a couple of years later when there was a bug in the formatting of self-published Kindle books (too small font that could not be enlarged) that I started to explore various editing and library-keeping options of Calibre. And I discovered I enjoyed fiddling with my elibrary. The downside of this activity was that I grew extremely fussy about the formatting and metadata of my books. But that was years after I started ereading.

You'll be fine.
I also fix the formatting of most eBooks I read. I find in most cases, whoever made these eBooks should be fired and that includes self-published authors. At least with the big publishers, in most cases, it's not much of an effort to fix the CSS/HTML. But some self-published authors, the code can be a disaster and the HTML one big file. It's just awful. Amazon should really have quality control on self-published eBooks.
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