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The Kindle 3 doesn't support ePub. In fact, Amazon itself doesn't support ePub.

It's been discussed before, PDF is an output format.

There are two types of PDF: regular and tagged. A regular PDF is what the majority of PDFs are, with objects that seem to "float" on a blank piece of paper. You can usually spot them very quickly by simply selecting the text n Adobe Reader, or whatever. If letters (or groups of letters) are separated from the next, it means each has a unique position on the page. Which makes it very difficult for converting software to process. Sometimes they have to approximate.

Tagged PDFs, however, use tags for paragraphs, formatting, etc. They're usually much easier to convert (tho far from perfect either). If you select some text and it doesn't have blank spaces between letters, then it should be ok.


Anyway, it's always better to use the source document instead of converting the PDF. Especially since it went through BRISS... Cropping software always messes up the PDF, even if you don't see it on the surface.

What you could do is OCR the PDF using ABBYY FineReader or similar, proofread it - which takes some time (basically means you read the whole thing), then save it as HTML and work your way from there (using Sigil or similar) to save it as ePub. Or Mobi. Or whatever format you want... I'd go with .docx personally, or .odt if you're using LibreOffice.