I need to skip 30 pages to get to the books body

[clittle]

Hi,

Some of the books I download to my device (EPUB) have multiple pages, often with "Chapter xxx" b4 I get to the body. These pages are mostly empty except for the caption.

I guess these are supposed to be a table of contents but they don't work as such.

Is there something calibre can do to sort this out?

[ldolse]

Download Sigil - http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ - and delete the offending pages.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by clittle

Hi,

Some of the books I download to my device (EPUB) have multiple pages, often with "Chapter xxx" b4 I get to the body. These pages are mostly empty except for the caption.

I guess these are supposed to be a table of contents but they don't work as such.

Is there something calibre can do to sort this out?

Sounds like Calaibe detected the word Chapter in the inline TOC (not needed for EPUB) and started a new page every time it detected the 30 "Chapters" listed in the Inline

[ldolse]

Originally Posted by theducks

Sounds like Calaibe detected the word Chapter in the inline TOC (not needed for EPUB) and started a new page every time it detected the 30 "Chapters" listed in the Inline

This used to happen with pdf, and with some other formats if preprocessing was enabled. There have been some efforts made to reduce/eliminate the problem in recent code, though an inline toc can still sometimes get one or two false positives. Goal is to eventually eliminate the issue completely. It's the currently the price you pay to identify the other split points in the document.

[clittle]

Originally Posted by ldolse

Download Sigil - http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ - and delete the offending pages.

Hi ldolse,

I was exited when I read your post. A solution!

But deleting 30 or so pages turns out to be a chore. You can't select multiple pages and delete them in one operation. At least I don't see how.

But deleting one page at a time is a pita.

Is there a better way?

Thanks

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by clittle

But deleting 30 or so pages turns out to be a chore. You can't select multiple pages and delete them in one operation. At least I don't see how.

If you use the tweak epub (via right click menu) you can delete multiple pages at a time. You still need to view the pages in a browser to make sure you are deleting the correct pages,

[clittle]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

If you use the tweak epub (via right click menu) you can delete multiple pages at a time.

Thanks! That's a big help.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by clittle

Hi ldolse,

I was exited when I read your post. A solution!

But deleting 30 or so pages turns out to be a chore. You can't select multiple pages and delete them in one operation. At least I don't see how.

But deleting one page at a time is a pita.

Is there a better way?

Thanks

If my guess was correct, you want to JOIN with previous after the first, if you want to maintain a single page inline TOC. It takes seconds in Sigil.
First identify the 'real' body, then join the stuff before that.
Click. Right-click:Join, repeat Might take a minute and a half

[ldolse]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

If you use the tweak epub (via right click menu) you can delete multiple pages at a time. You still need to view the pages in a browser to make sure you are deleting the correct pages,

Will the tweak epub feature fix the manifest/TOC automatically if you do that? I didn't think it did those extra sorts of things as it was intended for users who understood the inner workings of epub. I recommended Sigil because I was sure it would make sure the manifest/TOC/etc was correct after deleting the files.