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Originally Posted by edembowski
You have a few options for editing the file. I'd say the easiest way is to use Sigil to open the ePub directly and edit there. You can also add TOC entries prety easily. There are other ways as well, such as using an editor like eCub, Adobe InDesign ($$) all the way to editing the HTML directly. Take a look in this forum, you'll find a few threads talking about the different ways of editing.
For this type of conversion, the automatic tools can't get you all the way there. I'd say start with Sigil and see how that suits you. It's free and pretty easy to use.
- Ed
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With a eBook the size of Dragons Fury (4000+ pages) Sigil is going to choke on that like Greg Norman. Ive already opened it up in Sigil and making any changes even small takes a very long time per change. 40+ seconds just to add a chapter break. Fixing a paragraph that has been broken (backspacing a sentence to reconnect it with the paragraph) takes over a minute. Its ugly lol. So I think at this point Sigil is a nogo, unless you do it in CODEVIEW which he would need to know HTML. Ive actually done a 2000+ page eBook manually (I don't know HTML either) with Sigil that was a conversion from PDF and that took forever. Basically this situation is the exact same thing only the eBook is even bigger. I wouldn't even try it and I am pretty hardheaded about bulldozing through this kind of thing so that an epub is edited and has a proper TOC. I really need to learn HTML it would make things way easier for me. But no time for that kind of thing right now.
But from what Ive read Sigil 0.2.0 is supposed to be dramatically altered and should have no problem making the changes in a timely manner (supposed to be way faster) in manual mode. So my suggestion is just wait for Sigil 0.2.0 which should be coming out soon (couple weeks maybe).