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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Define complex for me.
I usually get good results converting epubs to mobi. TOC good, Images good, formatting good. Embedded fonts not good, but gone, which is sometimes why I do it.
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Before you dump embedded fonts, you really need to stop and make sure the fonts are not needed. Like sometimes the fonts are embedded so the correct characters are displayed because the default font doesn't do it. Also, sometimes the embedded fonts are used to offset/highlight something and that you lose that if you remove them. There are more reasons for embedded fonts then just to display a certain font.
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I only convert to mobi and back when the book is unreadable on the reader as is. Kobo readers mainly. The books displayed fine on my Sonys but unpleasantly on my Kobos.
As most of the problem books were/are older formats converted to epubs, there were seldom embedded fonts. Just quadruple line spacing and 2 inch margins etc. The Sonys handled them fine, but at one time I actually wanted to use my Kobos.
Converting to mobi and back gave me a book that looked close to identical on both devices. This seemed to be a good result as that was my goal. And centering generally worked, or else it was aligned left which was good enough for me.
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Sometimes those display issues can be fixed with some simple CSS editing. Calibre's eBook editor will allow you to fix up those eBooks so they will look good on a Kobo Reader. The best way to do it is to have a look at the CSS and XML before another conversion and see how easy it might be to fix things.