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Old 03-19-2012, 05:16 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
I tested the Amazon epub-to-mobi conversion when I was uploading my book. This was about 3 weeks ago, I think, so not very long ago. The Calibre conversion was far superior because it handled the images more delicately.

I'm guessing that the Amazon conversion isn't creating KF8 files at the moment. My two cents, based on personal experience.
I've no idea what happens if you upload an ePub to Amazon for them to do the conversion. Personally, I'd use kindlegen on a local machine. I know that kindlegen produces KF8 formatting in the output, but, of course, you must view it either on a Kindle Fire, or on Kindle for Mac/PC 1.9.x to see it.

Calibre does do a pretty good job on converting from ePub to Mobi, but for images I'd rather do my own conversion to the specs for Mobipocket images rather than reply on any automated conversion. That is, my source would be an ePub, but I'd also set up an separate CSS and separate images folder for running the ePub through kindlegen.
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