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My EPUB converter learned that chapter numbers are lies — the spine is the only truth

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I built an EPUB-to-Markdown converter expecting a clean pipeline: unzip, parse, walk the files, emit Markdown. The early version walked the manifest in alphabetical order. Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 2, Chapter 3… readers of the output thought I was trolling them. EPUB is a ZIP of XHTML files pl…

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    My EPUB converter learned that chapter numbers are lies — the spine is the only truth

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