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Originally Posted by conan50
No.
I'm getting all my purchased ebooks from Amazon. I'm converting those to Epub at my leisure as a sort of master library of all my ebooks. I'm using Amazon's format on my Paperwhite as it is downloaded from them.
I'm not telling myself anything. As a Linux guy I appreciate open formats, and have a natural dislike of closed/proprietary formats. Just because you do not see things that way does not mean these things do not matter to others. Some of us see Epub as a safer bet for the long run of preserving our ebooks in a readable format while Amazon keeps moving toward new, less open formats like kfx.
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Well, that is a reason to boycott Amazon.
- Not a reason to commit yourself to today's implementation of an open-source reverse-engineering of AZW3. (Software always has bugs, and even calibre still gets bugfixes to the AZW3 input plugin. Which are fixes you will miss out on by pretending EPUB is your master format.)
- And not a reason to use EPUB as the source for conversions. Conversions are lossy, and converting from an intermediate format is ill-advised. UNLESS, you have personally ensured the intermediate format is the NEW master format, by manually editing it to fix the problems and making it (more) perfect.
- And not a reason to start confusing the issue by mentioning KFX.
Which is what I am trying to point out.
Always keep the source material.
Don't discard
or disregard the source material out of some misguided attempt to emotionally elevate "open formats".
And if you aren't falling to any of the above, but are doing the right thing...
The final and most important point of all: don't go around advising other people to put EPUB conversions on a pedestal, without explaining the whole story.