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epstewart · 09-05-2014, 01:23 PM

I recently started adding my Kindle editions to Calibre. I have installed the latest DeDRM Calibre plugin and set things up to automatically convert added books to EPUB format. When I add a downloaded book with the .azw filename extension, I do get an EPUB conversion, but I also generally wind up with an AZW3 file.

I'd like to know why that happens. It seems to me that, the input format being AZW, without the "3", the result (apart from the separate EPUB conversion) ought to be AZW also.

I am putting these books in my Dropbox on my Mac and accessing them on my iPad that way. But the iPad does not recognize that AZW3 files can be opened in the iPad's Kindle app. It's a minor irritation since I can always get the same books directly via the Kindle app ... but it is an irritation.

So is there any way to get Calibre to use AZW format instead of AZW3 so I can access these books in Kindle for iPad?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

09-05-2014, 01:23 PM	#1
epstewart Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 558 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: iPhone 3G 16GB, B&N nook	Why does Calibre convert AZW to AZW3? I recently started adding my Kindle editions to Calibre. I have installed the latest DeDRM Calibre plugin and set things up to automatically convert added books to EPUB format. When I add a downloaded book with the .azw filename extension, I do get an EPUB conversion, but I also generally wind up with an AZW3 file. I'd like to know why that happens. It seems to me that, the input format being AZW, without the "3", the result (apart from the separate EPUB conversion) ought to be AZW also. I am putting these books in my Dropbox on my Mac and accessing them on my iPad that way. But the iPad does not recognize that AZW3 files can be opened in the iPad's Kindle app. It's a minor irritation since I can always get the same books directly via the Kindle app ... but it is an irritation. So is there any way to get Calibre to use AZW format instead of AZW3 so I can access these books in Kindle for iPad? Thanks for any help you can offer.