Edit ePub eBooks with Your Favorite HTML Editor

ePub eBooks are increasingly popular today, but often they’ve been made by converting other file formats.

you’ve got the option to make them better by editing the XHTML files directly.

So first let’s get all of the files in your ePub eBook accessible.

Find an eBook you want to edit and then change the file extension to .zip.

grab the View tab, and then uncheck the box beside Hide extensions for known file types.

Click Ok, and then change the file pop in as above.

Windows will warn you about changing the file jot down; click Yes to proceed.

Now you’re free to browse the files of the ePub file.

Notice that it contains mostly HTML or XHTML files and images.

Now you’ve got the option to extract the folder, or extract individual files as before.

Edit Your eBook in KompoZerThe actual ebook contents are stored in HTML or XHTML files.

To change the contents of your eBook, you’ll want to edit these files.

You could edit them by hand in Windows using Notepad if you don’t have an HTML editor installed.

A better option would be to use an HTML editor.

Download KompoZer (link below), and unzip the files.

Then launch the new folder and launch kompozer.exe; you don’t even need to install it.

In KompoZer, fire up the HTML or XHTML file from your eBook that you want to edit.

Now you could edit the file just like you would edit a document in Word.

Remove extra and unneeded text, make titles stand out, correct misspellings … anything you want!

This is especially helpful if yourePub file was created by converting a PDFas these often have many small errors.

Zip the folder using Windows Explorer or your favorite archival utility.

Now change the file extension again, this time back to .epub.

Also, with an editor like KompoZer it’s not even difficult.Download KompoZer