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Nice tool but ack!, yet another this file format to that file format conversion tool. A book is not a file. It never will be. I know half the unixy nutcases won't agree with anything normal but in reality the world will continue to buy dead-tree books because no real consumer believes or wants these stupid files. Or will pay for it. Meh, the trash.
Nice tool but ack!, yet another this file format to that file format conversion tool. A book is not a file. It never will be. I know half the unixy nutcases won't agree with anything normal but in reality the world will continue to buy dead-tree books because no real consumer believes or wants these stupid files. Or will pay for it. Meh, the trash.
Preferences vary. I only buy and read ebooks, as they're vastly more convenient and somewhat cheaper into the bargain.
Shameless plug and this is only loosely related: Over the last holiday season I wrote a backend (written in Go and running on App Engine) to convert http url into epub. The frontend is a telegram bot that sends the epub to your reMarkable account directly, but it also has rest api to download the epub file: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub/blob/main/REST.md
I have found the best tools for this to be the free Kindle Previewer ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1003018... ) and Calibre. The Calibre editor is useful for cleaning up messed up EPUB files that don't work in the Kindle Previewer.
The comments are not mentioning [Pandoc]( https://pandoc.org/ ) as an alternative yet (missing mobi I think).
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Preferences vary. I only buy and read ebooks, as they're vastly more convenient and somewhat cheaper into the bargain.
Yeah, you’re an exception. The market is still massively into paperbacks though, despite the cheapness of files.
> no real consumer believes or wants these stupid files
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KindleUnpack doesn't seem to handle DRM though.
Neither does Calibre’s converter. To convert an encrypted AZW3 to an unencrypted EPUB, one can presumably decrypt it first and convert it second.
Well, two epubs gave a "something went wrong" when converting to HTML, which is the only output I'm really curious about. I got one conversion to PDF to work, then went back to try html, and now I've got to wait an hour... :(