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Originally Posted by John F
What is your process? Do you start reading and make changes as you see things you don't like?
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No. I don't even check the books in the Calibre viewer first, as there is almost always something I want to remove or change and there's no point in wasting time on any pre-checks. The very first thing I do after editing the metadata is open the file in the calibre editor. I open the html files one after another (checking stuff like ads, praises/raves etc I'd want to get rid of) until I come to the actual content (prologue or first chapter); then I can see what the layout/formatting looks like in the preview window and what I want to change or remove. After doing the necessary edits, I also check the files at the end, for things like samples, excerpts and more ads. Those must go as well.
After saving the edits, I check the book in the viewer and if all looks well, I'll run the page count plugin. The existence of page count in the relevant custom column means the book has been edited and checked.
And only when I've done this with all my new purchases I connect my Kobo and load the books (not necessarily all of them, those I want to read in the near future). Sometimes I may discover additional things I want to change while reading the book, but not that often.