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akita328 · 04-05-2023, 03:52 PM

Hi everybody,

thank you so much for your inputs. I will first try azw3-->mobi-->epub and see if that helps first... if not I will try learning how to use the Diap Toolbox..

and yes. the excerpt is from "For Love of Evil". I have all 7 of the "Incarnations of Immortality" in both paperback and kindle versions books 1-6. I'm waiting for book7 to be ebook-ed, but no luck yet. (there are few other books I have in hardcover that I would LOVE to get hold of ebook versions.. but unfortunately only German version exists, and no sign of English versions...) As far as I know, Anthony had some contract fallout (or something) with DelRay (?) after publishing the first 5 books, and changed publishers for the last two. first 5 books were fine... but this 6th was atrocious. It is bad enough that if I had realized that this formatting problem was this bad and wouldn't be a simple tweak in Sigil, would have returned the book... but.. too late now!

when learning Diap's Toolbox, I will work on bunch of copies until I understand what it's doing via trial and error methods. I usually use Sigil for simple edits I do (usually fixing typos or strange linefeed, etc), but have never attempted this level of clean up... so... may have to come back to get help later.

thanks!

04-05-2023, 03:52 PM	#8
akita328 Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2019 Device: kindle, iPad Marvin	Hi everybody, thank you so much for your inputs. I will first try azw3-->mobi-->epub and see if that helps first... if not I will try learning how to use the Diap Toolbox.. and yes. the excerpt is from "For Love of Evil". I have all 7 of the "Incarnations of Immortality" in both paperback and kindle versions books 1-6. I'm waiting for book7 to be ebook-ed, but no luck yet. (there are few other books I have in hardcover that I would LOVE to get hold of ebook versions.. but unfortunately only German version exists, and no sign of English versions...) As far as I know, Anthony had some contract fallout (or something) with DelRay (?) after publishing the first 5 books, and changed publishers for the last two. first 5 books were fine... but this 6th was atrocious. It is bad enough that if I had realized that this formatting problem was this bad and wouldn't be a simple tweak in Sigil, would have returned the book... but.. too late now! when learning Diap's Toolbox, I will work on bunch of copies until I understand what it's doing via trial and error methods. I usually use Sigil for simple edits I do (usually fixing typos or strange linefeed, etc), but have never attempted this level of clean up... so... may have to come back to get help later. thanks!