[Pulpmeister]

The four examples come from me, Pulpmeister. At the end of 2019 my old PC hard drive died, could not be resuscitated, so I got a new box with Windows 10. * Still using my old MS Office though. The two examples above that do work predate the disaster.

From that date, without me changing a thing in the way I make digital books, the epubs suddenly acquired this weird insertion of margins which I never asked for.

Joiwind sent me a PM, and I looked into it; went down a few false rabbit holes before I worked out the cause. Every epub up to the "great meltdown" was fine; every one since is, er, marginalised. I blame Windows 10, along with the infuriating way it now handles quotes, and other unimprovements. Doesn't happen, by the way, with those same books on my Kindle, using AZw3.

Anyway, henceforth, Pulpmeister epubs with be edited in Calibre to delete the unwanted margins before uploading. But I really don't feel like going back through a year's uploads, editing, and then uploading all over again. I have a queue of books lined up for 2022, including Peter Cheyney (d 1951) and others, and they'll all be fine.

Seasons wishes.

Incidentally, it cost me a small fortune to have most of the data recovered from my frazzled old hard drive. Luckily my Calibre Library was fully backed up on another drive. Once your PC or whatever first has to use "startup-repair", don't hesitate: get the drive cloned instantly, because the old one is definitely dying. Cloning a drive is so much cheaper than data recovery, but couldn't be done with mine because it was too far gone.

*Edit: Old system was Windows 7.