[LINK] calibre-ebook. Re: Borders and A&R finished

David Boxall david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au
Thu Jun 2 16:45:00 AEST 2011


On 1/06/2011 5:59 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> I use calibre quite a bit.  I use it as an initial method to convert books from html to epub format.  It does do that, but not all that well.  It's a good start because epub is a very difficult format for a human to create from scratch but I find I have to do a lot of work after that to make an acceptable epub.  Of course that's partly because the main market for epubs, Apple and iPads, have a lot of unique epub quirks (some of them documented).
> ...
I've had occasion to use Sigil for html-epub conversions. On the few 
times I've done it, the results have been acceptable.

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