So, I'm doing a few conversions again. It seems to be a yearly thing in prepartion for Winter
The last reply here says that using the .original_epub version to convert from is the
expected behavior? I'm a little confused by why this would be the desired conversion path? I would like to understand the reasoning behind this.
Here's an actual example of where it has become troublesome for me:
1. Downloaded story pages from a site I have a paid subscription to.
2. Extracted the HTML story body (used BeautifulSoup to do it) from the web pages to story_part00XX.html pages.
3. In Calibre, added an empty EPUB book.
4. In Calibre Epub Editor, opened the blank EPUB and imported the HTML files.
5. The result is, of course, an EPUB without any stylesheets.
6. So I converted the initial EPUB to EPUB using Calibre which generates stylesheets and substitutes calibre tags for all of the raw style code. It creates the EPUB file and an ORIGINAL_EPUB file.
7. I go through and make a few more clean ups on the CSS in the new EPUB (like making chapter headings more normal sized, making more reasonable margin settings, etc)
8. So when I'm ready to convert it for Kindle reading, it's using the ORIGINAL_EPUB. I can tell because the formatting is definitely off.
I don't want to delete the ORIGINAL_EPUB since conversions may lose original content or contextual formatting. But using the ORIGINAL_EPUB to convert from is sometimes significantly impacting the Kindle version.
What pathway should I be using to do this?
Thank you!!!