Sigil Reviews and details

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• Where can I go to convert old pulp magazines into epub files?

  Sigil is a gui epub editor that can import those images. Source: over 1 year ago

• Best website to write a rulebook for ttrpgs

  If i’m only doing an ePub, the Sigil ePub Editor (https://sigil-ebook.com/)) has worked well for me (free). Source: over 1 year ago

• Can someone test this on their Kobo? (Bionic Reading project)

  Sigil is the epub creator and editor. https://sigil-ebook.com. Source: over 1 year ago

• How can I rename my ebook files (ePUB and mobi) so they appear on my eReader interface under that name? And is there a way to delete pages from an ebook on Mac? (Kobo reader)

  On Mac, you can use Sigil to edit the metadata, and also remove pages. Source: over 1 year ago

• EPUB created from Google Docs can't be sent to Kindle

  Another option, better, IMHO, is to download Sigil (https://sigil-ebook.com/), and also download and install the epubcheck plugin for Sigil (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2950625&postcount=1). Then see if Sigil find any issues upon opening your epub, if not, then run the plugin and see if there are any validation issues. The error messages will point at the line of code that is problematical and... Source: over 1 year ago

• Question on making ebook

  Any issue left unresolved with Calibre can be resolved with Sigil. Source: over 1 year ago

• Honorifics in the LN

  I've started reading the LN and the use of honorifics really bothered me, so I used sigil and regex to replace them:. Source: over 1 year ago

• Kindle Formatting frustrations - is this even possible?

  Might want to try Sigil https://sigil-ebook.com/ (has a WYSWYG editor) or Calibre (raw HTML editing) https://calibre-ebook.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is there a decent epub reader for Windows?

  I use the one built into the free and open source Calibre. I also use Sigil, which has the advantage that it lets you customize the css of the book, so you can easily adjust it to suite your preferred style. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Omniscient Reader ePub Novel with Illustrations

  Lastly, if anyone wants to know how I did it, I downloaded Sigil, an epub editor, and took u/the-finnish-guy locations of the images from the pdfs, both dark and white, and added the images where I thought they would fit best. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Need advice on how to format eBook in Atticus and Calibre

  To answer your question. You probably need Sigil if you're not happy with the formatting produced by Atticus. Sigil is superior to Calibre in terms of editing an ePub. Source: about 2 years ago

• Is there a way to reverse-engineer the process or template used to create a series of ePubs with a specific formatting?

  If you open the previously Epub in Sigil you can edit everything as if it is a word doc, but also dig into the code. The easiest way to get started would be to copy paste the new text into the old file in sigil and save as. Tedious as you may have to go paragraph by paragraph to ensure the formatting remained consistent. It may require you to copy paste from different chapters as well to keep special formatting... Source: over 2 years ago

• How can i change this weird layout? I just want a simple book-like format not this sliced up bs (.epub format)

  Use Sigil to correct the HTML stylesheet. Source: over 2 years ago

• Where to upload books now?

  For Epub, you can use the Sigil Epub tool or really, any text editor. Epub is just a zip archive of XHTML files. Here's an explainer with Sigil. Source: over 2 years ago

• Best practices for ePUBS?

  The open source solution would be Sigil. Not as polished as Vellum, but very powerful and still pretty easy to use. Https://sigil-ebook.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Alternative to Vellum?

  What about Sigil and PageEdit? https://sigil-ebook.com/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Why is the table contents only showing Chapter X instead of the name of the chapter and how can I fix it?

  For .epub format e-books, there is a companion to calibre, open-source .epub editor, called Sigil, which has good commands for editing the table of contents of an .epub e-book. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Alternative to Scrivener for epub (Kindle) generation? Need Sub-chapters, [1, 1.1, 1.2] [2, 2.1, 2.2], etc. Vellum won't do this. What else is there?

  You can't do that with the Windows version of Scrivener but once you compile/export an ePub from Scrivener, you can do the indentations and a myriad of other edits to the ePub file in Sigil. IMO using Sigil to tidy up is vital if you're creating ePubs with images, tables, bullets lists etc with Scrivener. Source: about 3 years ago

• How to get the background to be black but the pages themselves to be white with balck text

  Duplicate it, open it with Sigil, and edit the css file to style the text the way you want. An EPUB is just a specific kind of .zip file around a directory of .html files. Source: about 3 years ago

• Slightly off-topic question Looking to make a digital cookbook for myself.

  Like an ebook? Sigil. Takes some playing, but works great. Source: over 3 years ago

• How do I do a search-and replace for the entire EPUB file at once?

  Get Sigil, the free, open source epub editor. https://sigil-ebook.com it has a search and replace that operates over the whole book. Source: over 3 years ago