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Originally Posted by CommonReader
Nor does Calibre do a perfect job converting each book. I have come across books that looked perfectly fine as mobi files but were full of question marks once converted into epubs by Calibre.
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You probably don't know what you are doing. If you use the proper charset most of those problems go away. Occasionally you get an ebook (both mobi and epubs) which have special characters hardcoded into the text. Those stand a good chance of being converted incorrectly. The publisher should always use html to identify special characters, but many don't.
To say that mobi cannot be easily converted to epub is rather naive. You will encounter difficulties even if converting epub to epub, you just have to learn what causes the errors and correct them. Mostly it is due to sloppy publishing standards.