Has anyone with an ebook reader

[james_davis_nicoll]

Used sigil? Any good?

Comments

[legionseagle]

We create all my ebooks in Sigil, and it's fine for that.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

The Epub creator? Yeah, I've used it. It's perfectly serviceable, but basic. Which, admittedly, is what I wanted.

[affinity8.livejournal.com]

I use it to convert fanfic into ebook format for my Nook. All I do is copy and paste, clean up the html if necessary, and all done. Very easy.

[connatic]

I've used it to clean up ePubs and to make fixes. What's nice (to a geek) is that it supports regular expressions, so you can fix things like line-breaks after a comma, or lines ending on 'Dr. / Mr. / Mrs.' with ease.

It's basic and you won't make a pretty ePub unless you know CSS style sheets. I recommend it in conjunction with calibre.

Note I use an iPad and the iBooks application, not e-readers in general, so I can't say how usable the output is in general.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Heh. The one thing I can't stand about Calibre is that when it makes epubs, it uses its own span styles, making processing further in Sigil an exercise in frustration. ("OK, which one is italics--span style calibre4 or calibre5 or calibre4 calibre5?")

[wiredferret.livejournal.com]

I use Sigil with Calibre to roll my own ebook compilations out of fanfic. It works pretty well.