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S3ZAi · 05-12-2023, 09:28 PM

Hey everybody, thanks for all your answers. So, if I understand correctly:

- there is no way to get back my edited file (as no one suggested anything along these lines). I'm guessing I overwrote it in some way and it's definitely gone.

- and: the path I followed was not a very sound one in the first place.

Well, I am under a great deal of stress and it's mostly stress from myself. So every now and then I just think that I have to have to do something and that will be the solution for everything. Well, no luck so far. So sorry for my panicky post.

What I have decided is to just give up what I was trying to do for now. I am sorry if I wasted your time. But, one point got through though:

I have downloaded and installed LibreOffice on my laptop. I was using google docs assuming there is no alternative. I have tried Open Office like 20 years ago or something and didn't like it much. In the meantime I was using an online license from my work for MSOffice365. But a year ago or something like that I had a big argument at my work and decided never to use that license again. So I ended up with googledocs. I have to say, for just editing a text it works ok-ish. At least it doesn't get in the way with many reminders from work and stuff like that. I was very happy to have separated work and private stuff. But this LibreOffice looks really like what I was needing all those years. So anyways, thanks for that!!

By the way, not sure if this would ever be possible, but this is something I have needed more often: I'm very very obsessed with details and this is something I also do with many epubs I buy: re-do the chapters and especially re-create the TOC.

The reason is that in my Kobo reader there is this line on top of my screen, where it says how many pages I have read of the chapter I'm reading at the moment. Then there is another line at the bottom where it says how many pages I have read of the whole book. As I have very limited time I am obsessed with checking every page how fare advanced I am. The chapter info at the top does not work very well if the chapters are not divided by html file.

When I re-create the TOC, I mostly use the option: create TOC from files, which makes a chapter of each file. (This works best for the info in my Kobo reader, not sure if this is the same with all readers.)

Anyway, I wish there was a reverse option: create a html file for each chapter in current TOC. So, what I could do then is first create a TOC from major headings and rework this the way I exactly want it. Then reverse the proces and tell calibre to make a html file for each chapter. After that I could again create a new TOC, now based on the option to create a TOC from each file.

Or maybe someone can give me a shortcut, if possible, what would be the easiest way to chop up one html file into several files? What I do now is very time consuming: I export the "maintext.html" file and then delete everything except chapter one. I rename this file to "chapter1.html". Then I import the maintext file and delete everything but chapter 2 and rename this file "chapter2.html" and do this for like 10-15 chapters. Does anyone know some easier way to do this? I know there are for example online-tools to chop up pdf files. But is this doable with html files?

Anyway, I'm just driving myself crazy, again thanks for all your help! Also thanks for calibre, it's the best ever!!!

05-12-2023, 09:28 PM	#6
S3ZAi Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: sony pocket	Hey everybody, thanks for all your answers. So, if I understand correctly: - there is no way to get back my edited file (as no one suggested anything along these lines). I'm guessing I overwrote it in some way and it's definitely gone. - and: the path I followed was not a very sound one in the first place. Well, I am under a great deal of stress and it's mostly stress from myself. So every now and then I just think that I have to have to do something and that will be the solution for everything. Well, no luck so far. So sorry for my panicky post. What I have decided is to just give up what I was trying to do for now. I am sorry if I wasted your time. But, one point got through though: I have downloaded and installed LibreOffice on my laptop. I was using google docs assuming there is no alternative. I have tried Open Office like 20 years ago or something and didn't like it much. In the meantime I was using an online license from my work for MSOffice365. But a year ago or something like that I had a big argument at my work and decided never to use that license again. So I ended up with googledocs. I have to say, for just editing a text it works ok-ish. At least it doesn't get in the way with many reminders from work and stuff like that. I was very happy to have separated work and private stuff. But this LibreOffice looks really like what I was needing all those years. So anyways, thanks for that!! By the way, not sure if this would ever be possible, but this is something I have needed more often: I'm very very obsessed with details and this is something I also do with many epubs I buy: re-do the chapters and especially re-create the TOC. The reason is that in my Kobo reader there is this line on top of my screen, where it says how many pages I have read of the chapter I'm reading at the moment. Then there is another line at the bottom where it says how many pages I have read of the whole book. As I have very limited time I am obsessed with checking every page how fare advanced I am. The chapter info at the top does not work very well if the chapters are not divided by html file. When I re-create the TOC, I mostly use the option: create TOC from files, which makes a chapter of each file. (This works best for the info in my Kobo reader, not sure if this is the same with all readers.) Anyway, I wish there was a reverse option: create a html file for each chapter in current TOC. So, what I could do then is first create a TOC from major headings and rework this the way I exactly want it. Then reverse the proces and tell calibre to make a html file for each chapter. After that I could again create a new TOC, now based on the option to create a TOC from each file. Or maybe someone can give me a shortcut, if possible, what would be the easiest way to chop up one html file into several files? What I do now is very time consuming: I export the "maintext.html" file and then delete everything except chapter one. I rename this file to "chapter1.html". Then I import the maintext file and delete everything but chapter 2 and rename this file "chapter2.html" and do this for like 10-15 chapters. Does anyone know some easier way to do this? I know there are for example online-tools to chop up pdf files. But is this doable with html files? Anyway, I'm just driving myself crazy, again thanks for all your help! Also thanks for calibre, it's the best ever!!!