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daffy4u · 01-14-2010, 11:14 AM

I used Sigil for the first time last night. I inherited an LRF copy of World War Z on the 505 I purchased. This happened to be the last pbook I purchased before I bought my Kindle and I just could not bring myself to read it in paper.

I use Calibre to convert it to both mobi and ePub. I put the ePub version on the 5050 and noticed that all the text was centered... on all versions. I tried to fix it with a CSS but I don't know enough about what I'm doing and it didn't work. I was getting very frustrated.

Then I remembered Sigil. I haven't been following it's progress but I did remember it was designed to fix and create ePub ebooks.

I downloaded and installed it and opened the book in it. I searched and found the "center" html tag and changed it to "left". That fixed it!. I did have to go back through and find the city titles which are like chapter or section headings and re-centered them and gave them an H3 tag. It was a little slow going but much faster than anything else I was trying.

Since there is so much html code in ePub books, should I be able to open an ePub book in Dreamweaver? I tried changing the extension to .html but that didn't work.

01-14-2010, 11:14 AM	#139
daffy4u I'm Super Kindle-icious Posts: 6,734 Karma: 2434103 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Long Drive, Calinadia Candafornia Device: KDXG, KT, Oasis	I used Sigil for the first time last night. I inherited an LRF copy of World War Z on the 505 I purchased. This happened to be the last pbook I purchased before I bought my Kindle and I just could not bring myself to read it in paper. I use Calibre to convert it to both mobi and ePub. I put the ePub version on the 5050 and noticed that all the text was centered... on all versions. I tried to fix it with a CSS but I don't know enough about what I'm doing and it didn't work. I was getting very frustrated. Then I remembered Sigil. I haven't been following it's progress but I did remember it was designed to fix and create ePub ebooks. I downloaded and installed it and opened the book in it. I searched and found the "center" html tag and changed it to "left". That fixed it!. I did have to go back through and find the city titles which are like chapter or section headings and re-centered them and gave them an H3 tag. It was a little slow going but much faster than anything else I was trying. Since there is so much html code in ePub books, should I be able to open an ePub book in Dreamweaver? I tried changing the extension to .html but that didn't work.