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Originally Posted by hiteshp
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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It seems a bit strange that you are requesting a tool to create a new blank ePub when your stated intent is to edit an ePub. An epub created by conversion from another format whether created by calibre, word processor or other program would not need a blank ePub as a starting point.
And I would disagree that there is a thin line between creating a new ePub and editing an ePub (not editing a
new ePub since editing would suggest the ePub already exists).
For me, creating a new ePub is going into Word or LO Writer, writing the text using styles and saving as a docx. Since most of the docx I import are from other people, I use calibre to convert to an ePub (Sigil does have a docx import plugin but it requires a style mapping table which makes it more accurate but also less useful when importing a random docx). I would then edit the ePub to correct any formatting errors, to add accessibility bits and bobs, etc. If I find spelling/grammar/word usage errors, they are bounced back to the original author for action. At times, Sigil's companion PageEdit tool is useful for viewing a page as are it's EpubJS, Bibi and Readium plugins but I do not do edits in PageEdit and calibre's ebook-viewer does not have editing options.
After editing is finished, I test the ePub on various apps and devices and convert to azw3/KF8 or KFX for local testing on Kindle ereaders and apps. I will also use Send to Kindle to check the appearance of a KFX converted by Amazon. calibre's ebook-viewer is web browser based and like most web browsers attempts to work around user errors making it fairly useless for testing. Most ebook publishers are not as forgiving and if your ePub does not pass epubcheck and in some cases, the Daisy accessibility checker, it will get bounced back for fixing.
I use both Sigil and calibre's ebook-editor since there are features that I use in one that the other lacks. I have played in past with WYSIWYG ePub editors but they lacked the fine control I prefer.