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Carpman · 02-22-2015, 09:07 PM

I have an original Kobo Arc (still going strong).

I normally buy my books from Kobo, but I have noticed some large price increases in the past month or so, the same books being cheaper from Amazon!

I am trouble finding my Kindle books on my iMac (tut, tut) I have the Kindle app in place. I want to convert the books to EPUB by using Calibre, which I use for library management. As yet I have been unable to work out how to do this conversion. Obviously once converted to EPUB import to my Arc is easy.

I know it's possible to purchase Kindle books, convert using Calibre to EPUB and then transfer to the Arc, but for the life of me I cannot find out the right way to do this.

I use an iMac with OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks and I do note that Apple have change a fair amount of info in the software this past year hence why I'm having trouble finding my Kindle data files.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

nb: Currently my Kobo books are DeDRM'd using Calibre so I would like to do the same if I purchase Kindle books!!!!

02-22-2015, 09:07 PM	#1
Carpman Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 22 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Milton Keynes , England Device: iPad Pro	Conversion Kindle to Kobo Arc with Calibre I have an original Kobo Arc (still going strong). I normally buy my books from Kobo, but I have noticed some large price increases in the past month or so, the same books being cheaper from Amazon! I am trouble finding my Kindle books on my iMac (tut, tut) I have the Kindle app in place. I want to convert the books to EPUB by using Calibre, which I use for library management. As yet I have been unable to work out how to do this conversion. Obviously once converted to EPUB import to my Arc is easy. I know it's possible to purchase Kindle books, convert using Calibre to EPUB and then transfer to the Arc, but for the life of me I cannot find out the right way to do this. I use an iMac with OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks and I do note that Apple have change a fair amount of info in the software this past year hence why I'm having trouble finding my Kindle data files. Any help with this would be appreciated. nb: Currently my Kobo books are DeDRM'd using Calibre so I would like to do the same if I purchase Kindle books!!!!