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Old 03-27-2013, 10:31 PM   #2
KevinH
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Hi,
In short no. In longer form, a KF8 file is "compiled" as are all mobi ebooks. That means all css is cut away and stored at the end. The text itself is split in separate sections of nearly fixed lengths and is compressed. All separate files disappear. All images files disappear and are stored in sections in the mobi, all links disappear and are replaced with either text body offset or base32 encoded links. All svg is stripped out and stored after the text. Even any font files are removed and the contents are compressed and stored in numbered sections. Even the text itself is split into pieces called fragments of about 8000 chars in length and are stored out of sync with the pages html and body tags.

If you ask for the rawml using Kindleunpack, and examine the section map you can see all of this. Kindleunpack and Calibre has to undo all of this compilation nonsense to rebuild the epub without knowledge of any original file, or link names.

Sorry but in truth mobis are nothing like epubs, although KF8s are closer, they still need a lot of work to create something epub-like.
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