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Originally Posted by democrite
Would it someday be possible to preserve modification dates within the EPUB, e.g. if a file hasn't been modified, keep the old date? Such may be hard to keep track of, I don't know. I'm not sure if I am the only one, [...].
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I believe Calibre's Editor does this.
(Although I haven't checked the internal modification dates in a very long time.)
It was helpful when you could open a book, then see certain chapters with original (individual) modification dates:
- 2021.12.12 = Chapter01.xhtml
- 2018.01.01 = Chapter02.xhtml
- 2021.12.12 = Chapter03.xhtml
You'd know that some sort of fix/correction was done within those chapters only. (Sigil, for as long as I remember, always adjusted every file within the EPUB with the current date/time.)
I just
did a modification date analysis a few months ago on a massive Churchill book.
Hitch had some issues with the original ebook release (2018), and I dug up later versions of the ebook (2019) to see differences.