Edit ePUB files

Edit an ePUB file

Sigil

Sigil allows you to completely view and edit the technical content of an ePUB file: metadata, HTML files, images ... If you need to correct a text precisely, to search / replace, Sigil is the tool for you.

Notable features:

• Proposes to correct structure errors found in ePUB archive, delete unused resources
• Show HTML rendering and code simultaneously
• Metadata editor
• Browsing the entire ePUB archive, deleting and adding files possible
• Spellchecking
• Multilingual interface

Disadvantages

• The pages are edited with HTML tags. This display does not make it easier to focus on the content as it clutters the user's view, although a preview window is offered.

Magic

Presenting the same interface as Sigil because it is built on the same code base, Magic has many similar options, but offers a more convenient input mode, in WYSIWYG mode.

Notable features:

• Easy text editing: you can format the text like on a word processor, without being bothered by HTML tags (unlike Sigil software)
• Switch between HTML code and HTML edit mode (F2 key), possibility to inspect the HTML code from the preview window (like in a browser)
• HTML validation
• Multilingual interface

ePUBMetadataEditor

ePUB Metadata Editor provides an interface for configuring the metadata of an ePUB file.

However, you have to be careful: if this tool works well most of the time, I have noticed file corruption on versions 1.8.7 and lower. Incorrect writes can occur in the content.opf file, due to incorrect interpretation of the XML.

Edit metadata quickly

To quickly edit the metadata of an EPUB file, if you are using FreeCommander, you can tell it your editing software. So, by selecting a file and pressing F4, it will launch the software which will in turn open the EPUB file.

Example with ePubMetadataEditor :

• On FreeCommander, go to Extra / Preferences
• Go to External Programs
• Add an action in the Editor part like this:
  
  
• Validate the modification.
• Now, on FreeCommander Explorer, choose a file and press F4 so that ePubMetadataEditor opens on the selected file.