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ni_c · 09-26-2015, 12:44 AM

old thread, but still relevant topic, thought id share my experience

have imported an amazon topaz book into calibre. Only found out after trying to open it directly with Calibre ereader - the extension itself only shows .azw

it imported as an htmlz (thanks user_none) and from there converted to epub without issue. Calibre ereader can open both epub and htmlz versions, but the latter took longer than usual, and theres no real issues editing the epub.

Its not an exact replica, but the only problems have noticed are the following

- italics rules have been stripped
- superscript rules have been stripped (plus sometimes also disappears the footnote numbers too)
- some quotations " are converted to 11
- some images are formatted as svg (Calibre ereader cant view those in its popup but they show up fine otherwise, and can be converted to standard formats with third party software or service)
- and toc needs to be redone

Overall, hoped to find a fix for those issues, but feel sortof relieved now, that if the conversions are always imperfect, those issues arent too hard to fix

09-26-2015, 12:44 AM	#16
ni_c Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: none	old thread, but still relevant topic, thought id share my experience have imported an amazon topaz book into calibre. Only found out after trying to open it directly with Calibre ereader - the extension itself only shows .azw it imported as an htmlz (thanks user_none) and from there converted to epub without issue. Calibre ereader can open both epub and htmlz versions, but the latter took longer than usual, and theres no real issues editing the epub. Its not an exact replica, but the only problems have noticed are the following - italics rules have been stripped - superscript rules have been stripped (plus sometimes also disappears the footnote numbers too) - some quotations " are converted to 11 - some images are formatted as svg (Calibre ereader cant view those in its popup but they show up fine otherwise, and can be converted to standard formats with third party software or service) - and toc needs to be redone Overall, hoped to find a fix for those issues, but feel sortof relieved now, that if the conversions are always imperfect, those issues arent too hard to fix Last edited by ni_c; 09-26-2015 at 01:15 AM.