03-25-2013, 10:59 AM | #16 |
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03-25-2013, 01:10 PM | #17 |
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03-25-2013, 03:32 PM | #18 |
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03-26-2013, 12:35 AM | #19 | |
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Shaded tables and better formatted tables are important to me. I read some non-fiction stuff, such as diet books, books on aquarium care, model rockets and other books that make use of tables. |
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03-26-2013, 09:59 AM | #20 | |
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Hmm, lets see, we already mentioned drop caps, shaded tables, fonts (which are optional to the reader on Kindle's, btw.) How about text indent defined as a % being rendered properly instead of half way across the page, any variance of right margin being either lost, or rendered as nested blockquotes (which is worse depends on the book, I suppose.) No right margin variance at all. Those are just the things that would trip up and require hand editing on 50% of the books I tried converting back whe I still bothered creating KF6 mobis. Last edited by rashkae; 03-26-2013 at 10:03 AM. |
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03-26-2013, 11:52 AM | #21 |
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Since a lot of people seem to be saying "why would you buy a Paperwhite if you want ePub support???", I just want to clarify. This concerns lending ebooks from my local library, since I want to support them and they use ePub predominantly. It doesn't concern any large amount of books.
Concerning the topic of this thread, I have started using Calibre and the conversions work splendidly from ePub to azw3. I find it a bit strange that people keep referring to ePub to mobi conversions - why would I use mobi on a Paperwhite? Thanks to everyone that have replied, I believe Calibre will work wonderfully for all my conversion needs in the future. |
03-26-2013, 12:09 PM | #22 |
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03-26-2013, 12:11 PM | #23 |
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I don't know - perhaps best to simply try it and see?
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03-26-2013, 02:21 PM | #24 |
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Since we are talking about a epub to azw3 conversion, I have a question regarding the opposite conversion:
Is there a way I can find out whether a book offered on Amazon is AZW3 or mobi? I would like to extract the epubish-content of the book (it it's AZW3) and zip it to epub without converting with calibre |
03-26-2013, 03:19 PM | #25 |
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Download the free sample.
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03-26-2013, 03:45 PM | #26 |
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One reason is to be able to use JBPatch for its hyphenation patch which only works on mobi/azw... (There is a new plug-in for Calibre that will insert soft hyphenations, though I have not yet investigated it thoroughly)
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03-26-2013, 05:00 PM | #27 |
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03-26-2013, 06:10 PM | #28 | |
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IMHO, of course, again. It doesn't have the most features, true, but apart from Custom Fonts there's not too much I'm missing except when I'd really get down to the nitty gritty geeky details. I have a Kindle, though I *never* buy from Amazon, and my base format is EPUB. As long as Calibre can convert from that to the format of the reader I want, then I don't really care about that format, or the manufacturer; I only care about the device itself. Had Calibre not existed, with no other way to convert from ePub to Mobi/AZW, I'd not have had a Kindle. |
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03-26-2013, 06:42 PM | #29 |
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I *do* buy from Amazon, but I also buy from a lot of other retailers, and when I've got the option I download epub. I own devices that can read epub, mobi and azw3 and calibre makes the process of reading all those formats nearly transparent.
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03-27-2013, 03:44 AM | #30 |
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I too buy lots of books from BooksOnBoard, because their prices are often better than Amazon's.
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