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Old 12-18-2016, 07:42 PM   #480
jhowell
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Originally Posted by notimp View Post
kfx is - Scrambled by design, which makes it "unfit for archival purposes" not my words, the words of the guy that tried to to reverse engineer the container, for several months.
Can you provide a reference to this statement?

I have written something quite different. Here is a quote:

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The main reason that KFX has not been already cracked is that it would not be useful to do so currently. KF8 retains much of the original EPUB/HTML source that was used to create the book. KFX is much more highly processed and a lot of details of the original HTML coding are lost in the process. Thus KFX is inferior to KF8 for the purposes of archival or conversion. As long as they continue to make KF8 easily available there is no incentive do anything with Amazon-delivered KFX files.
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