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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I'm not likely to go to as much trouble as you do, but I am interested in the process. How exactly do you extract the epub from the Kindle book?
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Use the KindleUnpack plugin for Calibre. This does not convert the book. It's not really extracting an EPUB; it's more like extracting the HTML and XML stuff from the Amazon AZW3 file, after which it gets rebuilt into an EPUB.
I don't know if extract & rebuild, or converting yields the better results. I've never had problems with the extraction up until now.
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I have the keep original file option turned on in calibre so that I am almost always starting with the original ebook file if I decide to reconvert for some reason, so while there is always a fair amount of crap injected it doesn't seem to increase over time. I am inclined to think that the amount of crap injected may be decreasing with newer versions of calibre.
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I don't use the original file option. After I've fixed up an EPUB like I want it, it never changes apart from inserting metadata from Calibre into it. The EPUB I create/fix is the default format.