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Old 08-05-2010, 09:34 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Once free of DRM, conversion from Mobipocket to ePub should be easy and high quality using Calibre.
This has not been my experience, I'm afraid. Text including "<" characters and other computerese can confuse the converters - this happened to me with "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" where she's talking online, for example. The latest Dawkins also came out a mess - not sure what was going on there. The bolding and paragraphs were all over the place.

All I'm saying is that one shouldn't underestimate the hassle factor in getting to a readable epub from an Amazon purchase. Now the K3 is so cheap and they have a UK store, I'm signing up to the evil empire
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