FWIW, there are others that care and when they have time they will look at the format. I will eventually get the extra time away from Sigil to work on KindleUnpack again and spend some time looking at what you have done especially on how you approached converting kfx (no drm) back to its closest epub representation that will allow conversion to other formats. If the format can not be converted to a decent epub, I am simply not interested.
That said, working on the DRM version will typically require access to a PC with the proper tools and debuggers to see what is really going on. The recent change to support this format with KPC 1.19 should actually help in that regards.
The key is that there are currently ways around being forced to use that format that will actually result in a higher quality epub representation than trying to de-kfx back to epub (even if its drm could be removed). So there is not much interest by many until it is actually required.
Hope this explains things from one old programmer to another! Hope the wine was good.
KevinH
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Originally Posted by jhowell
It's Friday night and maybe I've have a glass of wine too many, but I feel a need to comment on the current situation with Amazon's KFX. Right now it seems to be their main format for delivery of ebooks and as far as I can tell I am the only person interested enough in it to look into the details of how it works. One old retired programmer. That seems so strange to me. When I first joined MobileRead there were a lot of people delving into file formats and DRM and figuring out the whole ebook phenomenon. Now most of the developers have moved on to other things. I guess it just isn't as exciting as it once was. Such is life.
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