The comments are not mentioning [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) as an alternative yet (missing mobi I think).
Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
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Re: Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ones with DRM are .azw, basically an encrypted .mobi. Calibre is your friend. https://calibre-ebook.com/
And (another fun fact) if you want to email EPUBs to your kindle, just make the file extension .png (!?) and it will be automatically converted, without the need for Calibre.
Although who knows why you'd want to go without Calibre when it's so multi-functional?
Re: Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
In case the question isn't about the format but about the DRM, Apprentice Alf has a wonderful plugin for Calibre: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com
And unfortunately I don't think the DRM for the latest format (KFX) has been cracked yet. The best anybody can do is work around it by getting Amazon to send you the book in an older Kindle format but then you lose all the nice things that you get with KFX.
> The best anybody can do is work around it by getting Amazon to send you the book in an older Kindle format but then you lose all the nice things that you get with KFX.
What do you get with KFX? It's hard for me to imagine any goodies I'd rather have than a file that I own and can read at my leisure.
Re: Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
And unfortunately I don't think the DRM for the latest format (KFX) has been cracked yet. The best anybody can do is work around it by getting Amazon to send you the book in an older Kindle format but then you lose all the nice things that you get with KFX.
> The best anybody can do is work around it by getting Amazon to send you the book in an older Kindle format but then you lose all the nice things that you get with KFX. What do you get with KFX? It's hard for me to imagine any goodies I'd rather have than a file that I own and can read at my leisure.
One really nice feature you get is that if Amazon decides they want to delete the book from your kindle they can. It's a nice feature for Amazon and the publishers love it as well.
Re: Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
#25How is this monetised?
Re: Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
And (another fun fact) if you want to email EPUBs to your kindle, just make the file extension .png (!?) and it will be automatically converted, without the need for Calibre.
Although who knows why you'd want to go without Calibre when it's so multi-functional?
Most people HN would want it since we are power users who like desktop apps. But don’t rob yourself of trying to understand why everyone else doesn’t want to use desktop software to get a book on their Kindle.
For example, my girlfriend is an avid ebook reader but couldn’t be less interested in it. “I can see why that could be useful but... no thanks.”
We like the smell of our own farts too much sometimes. In this case, in the form of “why don’t people want to use more software to do what you were already doing without it?”
Re: Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
#27How is this monetised?
https://epub.to/signup lists plans
Re: Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
#28Why would you convert an epub to pdf? There is no ebook reader, other than kindles (for which the proper conversion would be to kf8), that can't handle epubs.
Re: Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
#29Nice 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.
Re: Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
And unfortunately I don't think the DRM for the latest format (KFX) has been cracked yet. The best anybody can do is work around it by getting Amazon to send you the book in an older Kindle format but then you lose all the nice things that you get with KFX.
> The best anybody can do is work around it by getting Amazon to send you the book in an older Kindle format but then you lose all the nice things that you get with KFX. What do you get with KFX? It's hard for me to imagine any goodies I'd rather have than a file that I own and can read at my leisure.
Justification is much better on kfx