Glo sideloaded epubs - how do i "unlock" formatting? Calibre or Sigil

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Originally Posted by burnafterreading

i think that captures my intent quite nicely. i'd like to reformat to a simple readable "plain text divided into TOC'd chapters", and nothing else. i probably wouldn't care if i lost bold, italic, footnotes, etc. hey, if a book can't stand on its own without that, it's probably not a book i'd want to read anyways :P (elitist? eek, i hope not)

i'll try a few things with a random ebook and see how complex the various processes are. most books i buy from Google or Kobo and leave them as-is, so really this would only affect a small handful of books i read (or it would be a cleanup of a backup of something i already bought).

You'll find that you end up reformatting everything. It's just simpler that way.

The only real css class (<tag class="cssclass">) used in my ebooks is one to center the text (used in section breaks). Everything else is pretty much handled through native html tags and the css to control those tags.

The most difficult things to reformat are the section breaks, chapter headings and quoted text (larger margins than normal text).

Don't forget about the section breaks, there are usually a variety of ways these are formatted in the same ebook.