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Converting EPUBs taught me that a book's spine order is not its reading order

I spent a while on the EPUB converter and the biggest surprise wasn't the HTML inside — it was the manifest. An EPUB is a zip of XHTML files plus an OPF file that declares the canonical reading order in its spine. My first pass just walked the archive in zip order, which produced chapters out of se…

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  1. 2026-11-06 03:06 · DEV Community — AI
    Converting EPUBs taught me that a book's spine order is not its reading order

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