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Originally Posted by Apollyon202
Just out of curiosity, what do you (plural) edit in epub books? Normally I purchase it from the local store, download it as epub, convert it with Calibre and send it to my Libra.
The formatting etc is perfect all the time, all the books look the same on my Kobo as I can customize all settings on the ereader.
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Maybe all the publishers in your country use the same formatting? Most of what I read is in English and formatting can vary wildly between books. And I don't want to fiddle with ereader settings every time I open a new book.
As to what I personally edit, there are many things depending on the specific book, including:
- Removing unnecessary margins from body text
- Removing font size from body text if different from 1em
- Removing embedded font family from body text (not from headings or special sections)
- Removing line height from body text
- Setting text indents to 1em
- Deleting spaces between ordinary paragraphs (not section breaks)
- Setting widows and orphans to 1
- Removing unnecessary white space from chapter headings and section breaks
- Deleting ads, praises, excerpts, samples and all other unnecessary filler stuff
- Fixing table of contents when needed (some older books have missing or incomplete TOC)
I'm sure there are more things...