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Originally Posted by JSWolf
if you know CSS, then editing an ePub can be quite easy. Also, you can give Sigil a go as well.
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But I don't want to! I want to go to a shop, buy a book and start reading it.
This worked fine with mobi books, at least until I started getting worried about the DRM.
Then I had to learn how to install and use some Python scripts, it took me months (mostly because I didn't spend that much time working on it, I'd rather read) but I finally had it working, and then I had to switch to epub and do the whole thing again.
Except that with Adobe epubs, I can't download the book from anywhere I want, I have to do it from my own computer and to use ADE instead of simply downloading from my browser.
Then I tried to read epub files and found that they are more trouble than they're worth, so I went back to mobi and started converting the epub files I bought. More trouble
OK, I admit that my reluctance to switch to epub is not entirely rational. In part, it's because I was doing fine with mobi and I'm being forced to switch against my will. In part it's because I hate the Adobe DRM implementation. And in part it's because publishers just don't know how to make a decent epub file.
But I don't see how editing manually each epub book I buy or download is going to make my life easier...
Maybe I should just go back to paper books, they are easier to find, cheaper and much less trouble
I'll give Sigil a go before I do that
