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Originally Posted by KevinH
And based on this code from calibre:
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...sh/kepubify.py
There are quite a large number of quirks being accounted for including wrapping the contents of each body tag with both outer and inner divs, wrapping sentences in spans, etc, that really do not make reading and writing kepub files in Sigil directly possible.
So if this is something you plan to do, you should either convert the .kepub to normal epub3 using Calibre or write your own input and output plugins for Sigil probably using calibre code as a model for all the changes needed. Then make sure your css does not use tag selectors for div and span, since they are being injected for use by kobo.
So although you can read in a kepub into Sigil, it will be full of such junk that most people will want to clean up or remove, to actually get a clean epub3. |
I think it is quite clean to keep all my books as plain epub, and let Calibre convert to kepub as it sends a book to my Kobo. All the books show up in the Kobo as <book>.kepub.epub. I never bring one back the other way.
I did try, just for fun, to edit some ".kepub.epub" books once but it is a migraine just waiting for you. I agree with the idea of converting with Calibre back to epub. I don't think I've never run across a book that had a filename of just plain .kepub.
I can't se any point in storing .kepub.epub files on my machine. If I buy a Kobo book on the reader, I can still go to the site and download an epub. So far, at least.