Post AYEx3PHjItUSaC3JR2 by cognate@shitposter.club
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(DIR) Post #AYEnxPiFtvKoaJWk0O by sim@shitposter.club
2023-07-31T01:19:53.787333Z
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Does anyone have experience using sigil for ebooks?
(DIR) Post #AYEoi9KicMRrOWnrf6 by cognate@shitposter.club
2023-07-31T01:28:23.875781Z
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@sim I've used Sigil and Calibre's ebook editor for editing and debugging ebooks. I found that Calibre's editor is nicer for debugging the html and css, but Sigil had better tools for dealing with epub metadata. For the bulk of the authoring though, I used pandoc with some custom templates and filters.
(DIR) Post #AYEoyrywNmCAVHacBk by sim@shitposter.club
2023-07-31T01:31:24.462779Z
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@cognate Thanks for the info. Might be worth giving pandoc a try if another ebook reader someone recommended doesn't pan out. I think the one that I used before doesn't work on the setup I have now.
(DIR) Post #AYEqFUiWEYhPE4Opua by cognate@shitposter.club
2023-07-31T01:45:37.802242Z
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@sim It depends on what your requirements are. I used pandoc because I wanted to easily and consistently generate epub, pdf and web editions of mostly short stories. The code is here if you want it, but it's pretty bespoke: https://gitgud.io/cognate/aeringIf you're converting an existing work from, e.g. Project Gutenberg, for personal use, you might want to check out Standard Ebooks' tools, which are a bunch of python scripts that use calibre under the hood: https://github.com/standardebooks/toolsIf you're typesetting your own work, or something that's a bit more complicated, Sigil might be easier.
(DIR) Post #AYEqYc4p5ve9YOwshE by sim@shitposter.club
2023-07-31T01:49:02.891933Z
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@cognate Well, at one point I just wanted to be able to tell how many pages or words that an ebook has. Percentage isn't a good indicator for how long an ebook will take to read. Although I will need to consider making an ebook out of my own stories soon. Perhaps something that will be easier to highlight and edit parts of it in editing.
(DIR) Post #AYEsB1IBtM7qiW4xHM by cognate@shitposter.club
2023-07-31T02:07:13.789563Z
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@sim For estimating length, word count might be easier than page count, which depends too much on screen/page size, font size and spacing, etc. For example, a 'standard' novel is about 100,000 words; some searching reveals Way of Kings to be ~380,000 words.
(DIR) Post #AYEvwYGjP57uSrkjh2 by sim@shitposter.club
2023-07-31T02:49:25.757033Z
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@cognate That's true. Better to use word count than anything else for length. Is that Prime or the official one? Either way, that is definitely a lot of words that I can't top here. Haha.
(DIR) Post #AYEx3PHjItUSaC3JR2 by cognate@shitposter.club
2023-07-31T03:01:53.012827Z
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@sim I don't know what edition that count was from, the search result that came up was from a reddit post where they were comparing word counts of all his books.
(DIR) Post #AYExzVV4M0PEedzpJI by sim@shitposter.club
2023-07-31T03:12:20.710814Z
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@cognate Thanks. In that case, it is probably not prime. It was probably the official one along with the other books in the series. Then again, he has a lot of pov characters and chapters. I only have double the standard novel which probably means it can be condensed better into a more readable book for people. Depending on how much detail I want to change or skip on. Moving forwards, I probably won't be as shy when it comes to pov for an epic.