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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Placing this in a thread for KFX is not appropriate place to ask the question. I take it you are trying to download a eBook from Amazon which you believe is in KFX format and you want to download it in AZW3 format. Is this close? It is possible that the book is not available in any format other than KFX so you download it you would need a app capable of reading KFX. There error message seems to be that you do not have an app cable of reading this format.
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I am asking the question here because this thread is one of the two places on the web where I found this technique suggested. And I was actually replying to the post suggesting it. The other place is in a
Calibre documentation for releases, precisely about release 2.40 [02 Oct, 2015].
My question is about how to avoid getting my books in
kfx, and all my searching on the web, including reading this thread, suggests that it is a topic for
kfx experts.
I actually downloaded all my books (more than a hundred) and looked at the files. About 15% are
prc files that are fine for me. The remaining 85% is, apparently without exception, exclusively
kfx files. I supposed that is what the
kfx suffix means. Given that the
kfx format is recent, and that
prc is still used, it is more than reasonable to think that most of these 85% ebooks are originally in
azw3, or at least in a format that was formerly downloaded as
azw3.
Furthermore I get that error message even for books that are in
prc, which my devices apps can read.
Actually, all my apps are capable of reading
kfx (I tried). But
kfx is a device dependent format, and is therefore not appropriate for local management, such as using Calibre. That is why I want to get
azw3.
I can add that nearly all of my ebooks are not supposed to have DRM.
But I am open to suggestions for a more appropriate place where to ask my question.