Task 3: The e-book editor

Calibre includes a tool specifically for editing e-books. The e-book editor supports the
EPUB and AZW3 formats. Right click any book in your library and select ‘Edit book’ to
open the editor.

The editor is very useful if there are typos you wish to correct or layout changes you’d
like to make. It’s invaluable when trying to clean up a book that just won’t convert quite
how you want. Don’t be fooled though, the editor isn’t only for simple tasks, it’s capable
of handling even the most complex of layouts.

In addition to including the features you’d expect from a text editor (syntax highlighting,
line numbers, and regular expression based find/replace) it also supports a large number
of features specific to e-books:

 Live preview
 Table of contents editor
 Embedded font support including subsetting
 Smarten punctuation
 Remove unused CSS
 Error checking
 Much, much mor