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My EPUB converter alphabetized a novel — reading order lives in the .opf spine, not the filenames

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I tested my EPUB-to-Markdown converter on a public-domain novel and the output read like a shuffled deck: the prologue landed near the end, chapter 10 sat between chapters 1 and 2, and two appendices showed up before the epilogue. The bug was embarrassingly simple. An EPUB is a ZIP archive full of…

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  1. 2026-10-12 08:04 · DEV Community — AI
    My EPUB converter alphabetized a novel — reading order lives in the .opf spine, not the filenames

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