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For me the most obvious mangling the converting process is doing is inconsistent paragraphing, some times a single paragraph in original splits into two at an a
by billfruit 7y ago
For me the most obvious mangling the converting process is doing is inconsistent paragraphing, some times a single paragraph in original splits into two at an arbitrary place after conversion, and vice versa, seriously disrupting the readability.
- harshreality 7y agoWhat format are you starting with? That doesn't happen if you start from a modern, flowed (kf8) format with proper markup. Calibre tends to preserve all markup. It might add some trivial css fixups in some cases, but usually that's only when tags it thinks are important have no associated css already. There are two reasons I can think of for why you'd get broken paragraph separation. First, the markup in the kindle version (if it's old style mobi, or really badly generated kf8) could be broken, so when calibre tries to split into multiple files to prevent single (x)html files from being too big, it can't tell where paragraphs are so it might split in the middle of a paragraph. Second, you might be converting a pdf or azw4 (essentially a pdf) to epub, in which case you'll get paragraph breaks across pages. You shouldn't convert those formats to epub without extensive editing.
- billfruit 7y agoIt was a long time ago, possible it was converting from azw4 files.