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Originally Posted by Nate the great
InIn fact, Calibre is so commonly used that Amazon adopted a policy discouraging its use. (if you're not careful, Calibre can make badly coded ebooks.)
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Really? I don't think Amazon care. They told us years ago to switch to epub instead of docx and since then we use LO Writer, extra Save As in docx, Calibre docx to epub and get no problems from epubcheck, Amazon KDP, Google Playstore Playbooks or Smashwords/D2D.
We also test any new styles on epub apps (4.3″ to 10″ android), Kindle mobi/azw3/KFX (incl a download of published version) on eink (3 models), Sony eink, and Kobo eink. We check that non-publisher mode and mobi is still useable on Kindles. All the published ebooks are uploaded epubs converted from docx by Calibre for years now.
I have done an ebook with Sigil, but for novels and no editing in Sigil you need to create a map of styles to CSS for the MS Word import, and I have not done that.
Proofing is done on epub (a novel might get read/proofed 10 to 40 times), so until final version there is ZERO editing done of the epub, just docx to epub conversion in Calibre, copy back annotations and paste in a text editor.