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Old 03-24-2025, 05:29 AM   #8
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I would disagree. calibre and it's ebook-editor are a good choice for editing existing ePubs. It is not a tool for creating an ePub from scratch. The authors I work with use a word processor to create their books (Word or LOWriter and applying styles are a popular choice) but typing into what amounts to a code editor is not a popular choice. I suspect that Kovid Goyal would be quite happy to admit this as are the maintainers of Sigil, another ePub editor.

If you wanted to create your manuscript in Word or LOWriter with appropriate styles, you could get much advice on the use of styles to make it easy to create an ePub that will need minimal touchup after a calibre docx to epub conversion to be publication ready.

It seems, you are mixing making a book v/s making an ePUB. And I am solely talking of creating ePUBs. Well, I have created couple of ePUbs using Calibre and find it more flexible to use, than Sigil. My comparisions are between Calibre and Sigil. I will prefer Calibre anyday than Sigil.(There seems to be a very thin line between 'creating a new ePUB' and 'editing a new ePUB created in other software')

If you talk about word processors, then, here I would still prefer Libreoffice, which gives me an option to directly save to an ePUB.

But in the end, it simply boils down to personal taste and liking and Calibre is in best of taste for me.
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