Ebook Sharethread no. 2

[OCR Anon No.15451503]

Hello /lit/, here's a few more titles I converted from PDF to a more e-reader friendly format, some requested from the previous thread. I hate terrible conversions, so I went through them very carefully and I must say they ended up pretty good.

The Consumer - Michael Gira
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/sql0jrqrp41r9ps/The_Consumer_-_Michael_Gira_v1.0.epub
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/9sb565fdoneqwcz/The_Consumer_-_Michael_Gira_v1.0.azw3

I'm taking requests again, preferably obscure or dark/depressive literature (books should be below 200 pages, searchable PDF is preferred). No promises.

Previous Thread: >>15413003
>Dark Spring - Unica Zürn
>Mars - Fritz Zorn
>A Posthumous Confession

[OCR Anon No.15451512]

Moravagine - Blaise Cendrars
The NYRB edition isn't available as an ebook and apparently has an introduction and some unpublished notes by Cendrars on how he went about writing the book.
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/eyh4a8ghnbt25pz/Moravagine_-_Blaise_Cendrars_v1.0.epub
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/aewbj332bmhs9gj/Moravagine_-_Blaise_Cendrars_v1.0.azw3

[OCR Anon No.15451525]

Btw, if someone knows of a better file host let me know. Anonfiles links are detected as spam, so fuck that (maybe MEGA?)

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids - Kenzaburo Oe
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/blw21yggy6o5a9a/Nip_The_Buds%252C_Shoot_The_Kids_-_Kenzaburo_Oe_v1.0.azw3
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/yuhfrdqwucdqk1u/Nip_The_Buds%252C_Shoot_The_Kids_-_Kenzaburo_Oe_v1.0.epub

[OCR Anon No.15451538]

On The Marble Cliffs - Ernst Jünger
(This one was a request as well)
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/0ezvo8j4keokryw/On_the_Marble_Cliffs_-_Ernst_J%25C3%25BCnger_v1.0_.epub
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/skqqt1gmh9uvslf/On_the_Marble_Cliffs_-_Ernst_J%25C3%25BCnger_v1.0_.mobi

[Anonymous No.15451976]

>M . G I R A
f.ggot

[Anonymous No.15452028]

>>15451503
>>15451512
>>15451525
>>15451538
Really really appreciate the effort mate, you can try to use http://catbox.moe/
or maybe make them into torrents, I would gladly seed them.

[OCR Anon No.15452382]

>>15452028
Torrents don't make much sense. Thanks for the other host.

[Anonymous No.15452424]

>>15451512
Thanks a lot OP! May I ask how error-free do you think that .epub is? Is it as good as the PDF?

[OCR Anon No.15452501]

>>15452424
I go over every book multiple times trying to weed out any text issues. The software recognizes suspicious characters (like a Cone where it should read Gone, Pm instead or I'm, weird punctuations) and I verify antything unusual. Then I do a couple grammar/spelling check passes to catch any errors that might have seeped through.
I put special emphasis on split/compound words and punctuation though. Paragraphs, scene/chapter breaks, run on sentences missing a coma or a dot, dialogues that are hard to follow if they're not broken into separate lines, etc. I do this manually by skimming the whole text and comparing side by side to the original and through a ton of regular expressions. This part of the process took me at least 6 hours.
All in all, it should be 90+% close to what you could expect from a commercial copy. Unfortunately, proofreading the whole thing in detail would take days.

[Anonymous No.15452694]

>>15451503
Amazing. I've been wanting to read the consumer for ages, but fuck pdf on kindle

[Anonymous No.15452746]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/bxugzle7u71co5n/vintage.zip/file

Here's a pack of 23 fairly rare vintage pornographic/sleaze paperbacks from the 60s to the 90s.

[Anonymous No.15452764]

can you convert this one please? the searchable pdf is on libgen - its the one with the smaller file size. i have it in print but would like to have it on my e-reader as well and its not released in digital.

[Anonymous No.15452781]

>>15452501
can you do a tutorial on how to convert from pdf properly? i assume you use calibre. ive been experimenting and my results are always fucked.

[OCR Anon No.15453458]

>>15452424
>>15452501
Here's an update on the quality. I read 50 pages of this and run into 1 single incorrect word (modem instead of modern) and 2 missing opening quote marks which hardly made it unreadable. I thought some of the longer passages were definitely missing a coma, but upon checking the original PDF they're just like the originals.

>>15452764
This one has some weird formatting (like marked out words) which I'm not sure you can replicate that in an e-reader. Not to shit on the book but it seems kind of a luxury for all the work involved, sorry.
>>15452781
I don't use Calibre because it sucks for that particular conversion.
I run the pdfs through ABBYY Finereader which does the OCR. This produces a Word document full of unnecessary styles but mostly corrected text (you can use ABBYY to export as epub but I don't trust it).
In MS Word I do the editing and most of the fixing, line breaks and all that. I don't touch the styles because reformatting is very inconsistent and I don't want to lose things like italicized words and that kind of thing. Save it as filtered HTML, then it goes into Sigil to make the epub, where most of the work is consolidating the html/css so it reads well on any device. Add TOC, medatada, covers and all that.
I only use Calibre to convert the epub to AZW3/MOBI.

[Anonymous No.15453758]

>>15451503
Good post, been looking for the gira for forever

[Anonymous No.15454159]

>>15451538
Can you share the PDF of this one?

[OCR Anon No.15454281]

>>15454159
It's on b-ok.cc

[Anonymous No.15454355]

I'd appreciate it if anyone could share this.

[Anonymous No.15454857]

>>15451503
>capitalism bad mkay
wow this artsy fartsy stuff is so deep

[OCR Anon No.15454874]

Okay, I'm going to sleep. If possible keep this alive because some anon was supposedly trying to make a scan or something of Mouchette.
Also I just finished Moravagine. All in all, very few conversion issues. Might upload a corrected version soon. Pretty good read, like a shorter and less mysanthrope screams at cloud than Voyage to the End of the Night. It even has malaria, violence against women and WW1.

>>15454857
Thanks for the bump, friend.

[Anonymous No.15455453]

Does anyone have a copy of Jackson Crawford's Poetic Edda? Saga of the Volsungs too if possible, but not necessary.
I have his Havamal already, if anyone wants that.

[Anonymous No.15455552]

>>15453458
>I only use Calibre to convert the epub to AZW3/MOBI.
when you convert from epub to AZW3/MOBI do you do any manual editing or just run a conversion with presets?

[Anonymous No.15455924]

Thanks for sharing, this board needs more of this kind of stuff.

[Anonymous No.15455967]

In case of anyone wanting to go full autismo editing epubs

https://github.com/standardebooks

[Anonymous No.15456558]

okay, autists,
I was looking for a Clark Ashton Smith book and realized that it didn't exist in English available online, so I made one.
>pic related
https://files.catbox.moe/4aw8y1.epub

[Anonymous No.15456653]

>>15455967
i actually edit/format epubs for fun. thanks for this.

[Anonymous No.15456809]

>>15452746
>Download not available

:(

[OCR Anon No.15457493]

>>15455967
This might have some interesting tips. Will check their ebooks.
>>15456558
I don't know how the original looked like but here's a few tips.
Download Sigil to improve formatting. You can do a ton of search/replace with some basic css to prettify the book.
Justified looks better and is the standard for most ebooks/printed books. There's a justify property in the css but it's not applied to the text (it's all aligned to the left).
No paragraph margins because books hardly have any noticeable spacing between paragraphs.
For this reason, most books have some text-indent to help guide the eye.
Kindles seem to hate horizontal margins. For example a quote, a poem or an epigraph. It's better to use a blockquote with a class assigned.

[Anonymous No.15457675]

looking for peter sotos stuff.

[Anonymous No.15457698]

Anyone has the sketches of the criminam world by varlam shalamov? Published early this year, collections of very terrific stories about his time in kolyma during stalin russia.

[Anonymous No.15457710]

>>15457698
I bought a paperback copy back in january. I like reading about criminals and prisons.

[OCR Anon No.15457800]

>>15457675
Lots of PDFs here: >>/lit/thread/S15341142#p15341213
>>15457698
Here's an epub:
https://files.catbox.moe/8yvmei.zip
(One thing I don't like about that Catbox site is it scrambles the file names. I had to zip it)

[Anonymous No.15457845]

>>15457800
You the champ my man. Now if we can think of other obscure writers and cult classic books that cost a shit load to read in book form.

[Anonymous No.15458014]

>>15456653
>>15457493
keep the good work :D

[Anonymous No.15458264]

>>15457493
so are epubs/ebooks basically just html/css?
would it be worth it to learn html/css just to edit ebooks?

[Anonymous No.15458355]

>>15456809
>>15452746

re-upped:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/bxugzle7u71co5n/vintage.zip/file

[OCR Anon No.15458377]

>>15458264
They're a bit more complex than that, but yeah. An epub is basically a zip folder with many files, the book's metadata, TOC data, images, etc and the book pages (rename any epub to .zip and you'll have access to the files and contents of the books). The book pages/chapters are basically just html and css, the css can be declared in the html tags or referenced as a stylesheet (like any web page does).

Most softwares, Calibre, converted files from Word, Sigil, all do a somewhat decent job and you can always use other epubs as a reference. I just like to go a little autistic in recreating the look of the original, etc.

It's pretty basic stuff. At most you'd be dealing with a few tags, like headings (h1, h2, etc), blockquote, div, p, span, img and links.

[Anonymous No.15458399]

>>15458377
hmmm
i think i will look into this a little more.
i've got a stash of pdfs that i havnt been able to find in epub/mobi.
i think it would be a good learning experience at least.

[Anonymous No.15458416]

>>15451503

Requesting Little Caesar W.R. Burnett and any of these classic Cornell Woolrich noir/pulp novels.

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous No.15458443]

>>15458355
Just keeps saying this.

>Download not available
>This file can not be downloaded because there was a problem with the upload. >If possible, contact the person uploading the file to ask them to upload it again.

[Anonymous No.15458476]

>>15451538
I'm the anon who requested this in your original thread, been keeping an eye on the catalogue. Thanks a lot for doing this, looks great, going to read it this week.

[OCR Anon No.15458581]

>>15458399
You can learn most of this stuff in a day. Just pirate ABBYY or OmnipagePro to do the OCR and the software will guide you most of the way in fixing some errors. You can even edit and format the text in MS Word with some search/replace and regular expressions, which is where you have to be careful not to mess the text too much (it's hard to go back before you make a mistake). If you don't care about a TOC or fancy stuff, you can save that as a .rft and convert it to .epub through Calibre.
It just takes a lot of time and patience to get right.
>>15458476
Glad to have helped.

[Anonymous No.15458941]

Think I'd just buy a Boox Note2 and read the pdf

[OCR Anon No.15459774]

>>15458416
>Little Caesar
There's one in b-ok.cc but it seems like some conversion. Here's a retail quality copy:
https://files.catbox.moe/0xn3zj.zip

I'll check if I can find the other stuff.

[OCR Anon No.15459813]

>>15458416
>>15459774
>Cornell Woolrich
I found The Black Angel, Rendezvous in Black and a couple more with good quality.
https://files.catbox.moe/cnvjuh.zip
B-ok.cc has a bunch of other books. Maybe check if they have the other ones you're looking for.

[Anonymous No.15460055]

>>15459813
>>15459774

Thank you my good man. Wish I could do the same for you. Too bad my low intellect doesn't allow me to be much help.

[Anonymous No.15460404]

>>15458355
>https://www.mediafire.com/file/bxugzle7u71co5n/vintage.zip/file

It's not working.

[OCR Anon No.15461406]

Bump

[Anonymous No.15461643]

>>15457800
holy shit you have no idea how happy i am for your share. i found out about this guy in 2019, when the first part of his short stories were published by this new translator. those first stories are the best short stories i have ever read in my life, and i would recommend them to anyone following this thread. they are brutal, honest, and beautiful. the way he describes life after everything gets stripped down through hunger, torture and death, is impossible for me to reproduce or explain thoroughly. again, highly recommended stuff and fucking thank you for uploading this book.

[Anonymous No.15461681]

>>15452746
>>15456809
>>15458355

Oops i'm retarded. Here's the correct link:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/r3yoawhqo6zfibs/vintage.zip/file

[Anonymous No.15461690]

>>15460404
Sorry man. See >>15461681

[Anonymous No.15461864]

>>15461690
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/r3yoawhqo6zfibs/vintage.zip/file
Thanks man, it's working now.

[Anonymous No.15461969]

Western Neo-Aramaic Vocabulary by george ruskallah, others?
Was available on archive.org but not anymore
Other books on Western Neo-Aramaic would be nice also

[Anonymous No.15462297]

does anybody have "I have the right to destroy myself" by Kim Young-Ha? it would be greatly appreciated.

[OCR Anon No.15462309]

>>15462297
I read it a few years ago from this same ebook.
https://b-ok.cc/book/4430468/57537f
Not the greatest quality but it was perfectly readable.

[Anonymous No.15462362]

>>15451503
sauce on the cover art?

[OCR Anon No.15462406]

>>15462362
It's the book's original.
>Photography: Wim Wam de Hulst
>Jacket Design: Superlux

[Anonymous No.15462655]

doing god's work op, you should be proud
thanks a ton

[OCR Anon No.15462757]

Here's another one I just finished:

The Paper Door and Other Stories - Shiga Naoya
>https://www.mediafire.com/file/pbb0zovq986iazy/The_Paper_Door_-_Shiga_Naoya_v1.0.epub
>https://www.mediafire.com/file/7nalyokgvskt8e5/The_Paper_Door_-_Shiga_Naoya_v1.0.mobi
Definitely check him out if you're into Natsume Soseki's minor works.
Or if you're more of a novels type of guy, A Dark Night's Passing is really good as well (the epub is not my own). A guy is depressed and it's unclear if it's because he hates his life, his wife or what, all set in comfy prewar Japan. Just regular people living normal lives.
>https://files.catbox.moe/81rcru.epub

Going to sleep now.

[Anonymous No.15462786]

does anyone have an epub/mobi version of the man without qualities? thanks

[Anonymous No.15462828]

>>15451503
I have wanted to read this poetry collection for a long long time but I can't seem to find a pdf/epub anywhere. :/

[Anonymous No.15463312]

OCR anon you are one of the most based anons on this board, keep it up

[Anonymous No.15463320]

>>15462757

Today anon was a bro.

[Anonymous No.15463340]

>>15452746
I hope this isn't CP

[Anonymous No.15463341]

Do you have the Egg too, anon?

[Anonymous No.15463404]

>>15451503
Could you convert Lovecraft's letters? You have them on libgen in PDF.

[Anonymous No.15463432]

>>15463404
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=lovecraft+letters&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def

any of these would be great if you please

[Anonymous No.15464145]

Bump

[Anonymous No.15464558]

Hey OP, do you think you'd be able to do the formatting for this .epub?
http://www.mediafire.com/file/eyiip5xeqgk08b6/proxy.epub/file
I've converted it from this pdf using Finereader:
https://www.docdroid.net/O5csD7Z/proxy-pdf

Most of the text is already done, it just needs formatting. Thanks in advance

[Anonymous No.15464571]

Hi OP, do you think you'd be able to do the formatting for this .epub?
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/eyiip5xeqgk08b6/proxy.epub/file
I've converted it from this pdf using Finereader:
>https://www.docdroid.net/O5csD7Z/proxy-pdf

Most of the text is already done, it just needs formatting.

[OCR Anon No.15465003]

>>15464571
This one's very tricky in its current state because the exported epub stripped the text of all identifying styles and paragraph marks, so I would need to go over every single line and style it manually. It's just not very feasible.

Do you think you could zip the ABBYY "Finereader document" and upload it? It's a big file but it would be ideal because I could also search the text.
Or if that's not possible, the MS Word document?
See pic related for instructions on either method.

>>15463341
Sorry, the what?
>>15463432
Noted.

[Anonymous No.15465026]

>>15465003
thanks! there are no lovecraft's letters in epub / mobi / azw3 format on the web as far as i'm aware

[Anonymous No.15465161]

I will be very thankful if an anon would post Guyotat's Coma or any other underappreciated transgressive literature.

[Anonymous No.15465303]

>>15451503
Not the Original OCR Anon but I felt like doing something similar about books that I wanted to read for years but since they are PDF looks like ass on my ereader.

So I started with this, a lacanian critique of chinese cartoons:

Beautiful Fighting Girl - Saito Tamaki
https://files.catbox.moe/i7zxh1.7z

[OCR Anon No.15465427]

>>15464571
>>15465003
Actually, nevermind. I'll just try to format it as it is.
>>15465303
That's very cool, Anon. You could probably get rid of the page numbers and headers with a bit of search/replace (which I do in Word because I haven't fully figured out how regular expressions work in Sigil).

[Anonymous No.15465442]

>>15451503
I am merely posting to say I support this thread.

[Anonymous No.15465645]

>>15451503
holy shit, thanks anon. I've been looking for this.

[Anonymous No.15465747]

>>15465427
Sorry for the delay OP! Sadly I don't think I'll be able to upload the Finereader document because it's wayy too large. I could only upload the .docx and .pdf files here:
>https://www.mediafire.com/file/9j1g50iqt2rbrju/Proxy.docx/file
>https://www.mediafire.com/file/vgvw8pocfkqofxm/Proxy.pdf/file

[OCR Anon No.15466155]

>>15465747
Yeah, the .docx won't work to well. It has some stray page headers/numbers and it's in 2 columns that are actually text boxes instead of uninterrupted text which might be caused by the 4 columns per pdf page).
Maybe the pdf was too complex or perhaps it wasn't exported properly.

It took me like 40 minutes just to clear the 1st section full of quotes and what not. I hope the rest is easier to fix.

[Anonymous No.15466476]

>>15465303
It looks like shit

[Anonymous No.15466827]

>>15466476
diy then nigger

[OCR Anon No.15467550]

>>15466155
This fucker of a book is so poorly edited, I'm starting to hate my life.

[Anonymous No.15468147]

>>15467550
Could you maybe do like half of it? Then I'll finish the rest

[Anonymous No.15468189]

>>15467550
Sorry about that OP! Maybe you try do just half of it, if possible? Then I'll finish off the rest

[OCR Anon No.15468252]

>>15468189
It's not just the OCR, the original is not particularly better. It's as if some guy randomly hit tab and enter producing all sorts of inconsistent spacing throughout.

[Flower No.15468541]

>>15465427
Thanks!
Got rid of the pages numbers and headers, fixed a ton of typos and used Sigil to add a catalog.
The only thing that I don't think that I am even try to fix are notes and the index, that is too long.
Now the only details that I could find are some strange line breaks (unless there is an automatic way to do it), but nothing that should make reading it too difficult so here it is

https://files.catbox.moe/gs5wov.zip

>>15466476
The book or the OCR? If the first sorry, the second I tried to fix it see above.

If anyone have something short (30-70 pages) that wants to get OCR I probably can do it tomorrow or this Friday.

[Anonymous No.15468575]

>>15466155
You're right, it wasn't exported properly, apparently the Finereader version that I'm using is different from yours. Here's a better .docx file:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/pmiri7g0ri6hz2v/Proxy.docx/file

[OCR Anon No.15469025]

>>15464571
>>15468575
Here it is. Enjoy.

Peter Sotos - Proxy: Proxy: Peter Sotos Pornography 1991-2000
>https://www.mediafire.com/file/mxvbiv2zens6sm9/Proxy_-_Peter_Sotos_v1.0.epub
>https://www.mediafire.com/file/mnercw154o1wh9y/Proxy_-_Peter_Sotos_v1.0.azw3

This was way too much work desu. I should've checked it first lol. I noticed some issues with the OCR (like a few wrong characters or a couple sentences that were moved out of order in the more stupidly formatted pages) but I fixed anything that caught my eye. Proofreading it in full would be the end of me.
I normally align the text to justify but I opted not to because the original was aligned to the right (probably due to the fact it had 2 columns per page and it would look bloody awful and hardly readable).

I'm not so sure about those Lovecrafts letters now.

[Anonymous No.15469295]

>>15469025
Wow that was fast! Good job OP, thanks a lot! It looks great on my Kobo

[Anonymous No.15469467]

OP set up a BTC wallet ill send u some coins or something. I finished reading the Mars epub you made and it was amazing. Thanks a lot

[Anonymous No.15469538]

>>15451503
Humbly requesting you take a look at Impro: Improvisation and the Theater
I've had this recommended to me multiple times only to ignore it because it's too expensive where I live.

Other than that thanks for all the work. I've been looking for a nice version of Moravagine for a while.
There are a lot of good books which for some reasons you don't seem to find online in a good format.

[OCR Anon No.15469833]

>>15469467
Just the fact it was is a good read is enough, thanks.
>>15469538
Here's a retail quality epub.
>https://files.catbox.moe/yig7wc.zip

[Anonymous No.15470191]

>>15469833
Love you.
Where did you even find it ?
It wasn't on #ebooks or libgen.

[Anonymous No.15470298]

>>15469833
>>15470191
Same guy here.
Can you use your magicFu to also find Songs of Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont

[Anonymous No.15471613]

>>15470298
Found this penguin edition "Maldoror and Poems"

https://mega.nz/file/ZtpzGZgB#UtCvUDeoXYPQp1S4xdyq3T3i7TzepU6eM--EzHSBR3M

There is a version on libgen but it's badly formatted. I found the better one on "the eye". Pro tip, if you can't find what you're looking for on Libgen and #ebooks, just search for it in here: https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/Bibliotik/
Just keep in mind that sometimes the books begins with the author's name, and sometimes with the book name, this one I found under "C" for Comte de Lautréamont, and not by "M" for Maldoror.

[Anonymous No.15471648]

Need a good e-reader, one that won't fuck up my eyes basically?

[Anonymous No.15471754]

>>15471648
How much are you able to spend?
A basic kobo or a used kindle is a good choice.

[Anonymous No.15471836]

>>15471754
About £70. I haven't owned one before precisely because I wasn't sure if the technology had reached the point of not fucking up peoples eyes yet. Like, it would take a while for the actual cases to start showing up.

[Anonymous No.15471988]

>>15471836
It seems pretty improbable, they don't emit light at all, even those with light are frontlights not backlight so your eyes are not getting blasted.
Its not that different that staring at paper really, and kobos and other readers have the option to turn the screen yellow for extra comfyness, change the font, etc.
I got a chinese one because I have the tism and only kindles are locally aviable where I live, but anything with e ink should be fine.

[Anonymous No.15472646]

>>15471988
Thanks anon. I'll check all those out.

[Anonymous No.15472811]

Do you have any Carl Schmitt?

[OCR Anon No.15472939]

>>15470298
There are 3 translations of Maldoror that I know of.
The Penguin one (Paul Knight), an annotated Exact Change edition (Alexis Lykiard) which is the one I read, and also a New Directions one (Guy Wernhan). Here's the latter:
>https://files.catbox.moe/t295lt.zip

>>15472811
There's a bunch on the link below and on b-ok.cc
https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/Bibliotik/C/

[OCR Anon No.15473746]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.15474019]

>>15462757
Where did you find the pdf for that one? It's not on libgen

[OCR Anon No.15474126]

>>15474019
I found it on BiB but peculiarly enough it was actually scanned by someone who used to post and contribute on /lit/. He/she had the best Japanese lit bookshelves I've ever seen posted here.

[Anonymous No.15474805]

Does anyone have Ernst von salomon's the outlaws?

[OCR Anon No.15475735]

Final shameless bump.
I'm working on a pdf for Yokomitsu Riichi - Love and Other Stories and I've got a few other prospects for conversion.
If the thread dies I guess I'll just post again in a few days.

[Anonymous No.15476339]

Anyone has Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai?

[Anonymous No.15476356]

Thanks OP for doing this just for me

[Flower No.15476448]

>>15451503
Worked today on another one, using libreoffice and sigil I got a better result, also tried using a css from standardebooks and really make it look better.

The Sex Appeal Of The Inorganic - Mario Perniola
https://files.catbox.moe/t5jwfd.zip

>An organic sexuality, based on sex difference and driven by desire and pleasure, is being replaced by a neutral, inorganic and artificial sexuality, a sexuality always available but indifferent to beauty, age or form, a sexuality freed by thought from nature.

(Basically why inanimate things are hot)

[OCR Anon No.15476755]

>>15476448
Looks fairly good and perfectly serviceable. Here's a few more advanced tips for going full autismo mode.

- Every chapter/section should be its own html page. This makes the TOC and any links work more consistently across devices. First delete all section breaks in LibreOffice/Word (there's a dedicated special char for them). Then insert manual page breaks (ctrl + enter) at the end of each chapter (or just replace those section breaks with page breaks with search/replace). Later, in Sigil, those line breaks which will be transformed into some html tag. So you'll want to you'll want to search replace them with
><hr class="sigil_split_marker" />
or add a Split marker manually and when you're done editing everything, go to Edit->Split at markers.

- Always check for wrong line breaks.
I do this on Word most of the time, but basically it's
>([a-zA-Z]>)^13(<[a-zA-Z]) -> \1 \2
This will catch things like "hi<line break>there" and make it one single paragraph. That's the basic line and it all depends on how it's exported from the OCR soft. Sometimes you'll have to check if there are 2 line breaks between words, or if there's a space before the line break character, or if a line is split after a optional hyphen or a comma ("[a-z]-^13" or "[a-z],^13").

- Always check for stray page numbers and stuff. Sometimes it's hard to catch them if you use a very vague search expression, but since books usually don't have many numbers on them it's easy to find them and identify the pattern.

- If you're doing any aggressive search replace and plan to do a blind replace all, it's better to refine the query on a copy of the file so you don't mess it too much.

- In Sigil, I like to work on a single html page converted from Word, or in your case, LibreOffice. You can later copy everything in between the html body tags and paste it on an blank xhtml and finally Split. This way I don't have to copypaste the charset, the <title> tags or the css reference across several files.

- Words in italics are usually converted as a <span> inside a <p> tag with their own class, e.g., "somethingItalic". In your epub, you have this part
><span class="span2">Du culte des dieuxfetiches</span>
but since you never declared any css attributes (font-style: italic;) for the "span2" class, it shows like regular text. Most css sheets will have an "i" class with just the font style attribute so you can multiclass (e,g., p class="noindent i").

- Making a TOC is super easy. MOBI doesn't like h3, h4, so if you plan to have nested sections (like "Section 1, chapter 2") better save it as azw3 or it's better to just use h1, h2.
In Sigil, first you have to Generate, then Create Html TOC, then Edit. Here you can add other sections without heading tags (h1, h2, etc) like the copyright page, cover, notes, etc. Once everything's set, Create HTML TOC one more time so it updates any changes.