Thread: Why does Calibre convert AZW to AZW3?
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Old 09-05-2014, 05:56 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
It may not be worth the trouble for you. You'd need to either use your converted epub (or the epub produced by KindleUnpack) and then use Amazon's KindlePreviewer to rebuild a Kindlebook out of that epub. If you have iOS set as your default device (in KindlePreviewer) it should produce a sideloadable AZK file.

Unless the books have some really special formatting needs, I'd probably just stick to converting to mobi (or downloading the books from within the Kindle app) for the time being.
DiapDealer,

I need to research what you just said before commenting further. For now, I'd like to know whether the AZW3 files that show up in Calibre thanks to that 3rd-party plugin I'm using are now DRM-free? Or is that a meaningful question? Is it even possible to have a KF8/AZW3 file that is DRM-free?
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