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BetterRed · 04-22-2017, 11:23 PM

@ChipAHoy - I didn't think calibre knew about DOC. But I see it's in the preferred input list but not the Use Viewer for list - maybe that implies calibre doesn't know how to convert DOC to MOBI or AZW3.

If you can get the 'book' into DOCX format with Word or something, and provided its a well formed DOCX, then if you convert that into MOBI or AZW you should get a better result.

The old DOC format is an awful format to start from, as bad or worse than PDF. If I didn't have Word, I would convert it to RTF (there are online converters that will do that), knock it into shape with LO Writer, save it as DOCX, and convert that.

BR

04-22-2017, 11:23 PM	#3
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,832 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@ChipAHoy - I didn't think calibre knew about DOC. But I see it's in the preferred input list but not the Use Viewer for list - maybe that implies calibre doesn't know how to convert DOC to MOBI or AZW3. If you can get the 'book' into DOCX format with Word or something, and provided its a well formed DOCX, then if you convert that into MOBI or AZW you should get a better result. The old DOC format is an awful format to start from, as bad or worse than PDF. If I didn't have Word, I would convert it to RTF (there are online converters that will do that), knock it into shape with LO Writer, save it as DOCX, and convert that. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 04-22-2017 at 11:34 PM.