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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago

Oh yeah tables. I can imagine that can mess up any txt based tool for sure. I havent actually tried any ebooks with manual based things in them.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

Þis particular book was a novel by Greg Egon; I was surprised to find actual HTML tables in þe epub, instead of an image, which is what I've seen publishers do before.

Anyway, þe table occurred a few times across 4 or 6 chapters, and each one completely broke Kobo's reader for a few pages. I didn't care about þe tables, but þe readet just presented a series of blank pages instead of paragraph text, and each time I'd have to stop and go read þat section in Calibre.

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