Thanks, Juan Manuel.

I normally study using PDF books. Their typography is like "hardcoded", 
so a post-processing using Orgmode is needed, I think.

El 12/11/2022 a las 16:10, Juan Manuel Macías escribió:
> Ypo writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am copy-pasting e-books into org-mode to read and study them.
>>
>> Usually, words come hyphenated, like "ato- mized", that I wanted to
>> transform into "atomized".
>>
>> I am trying with query replace, but I am starting to think that it is
>> not the correct tool for this job.
>> I tried "query-replace [a-z]-" but I don't know how to exclude the
>> letter before the "-".
>>
>> What would you advise?
> I think it will be more practical for you to use pandoc:
>
> With this command you can convert an epub format to org:
>
> pandoc my-epub.epub -o my.epub.org
>
> (https://pandoc.org)
>
> You can also install calibre and convert your epubs to plain text from
> there.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel