Thread: epub mailed as png to Amazon will be converted
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Old 07-25-2017, 04:54 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Sounds like a bug. It certainly used to work. Personally, though, I find converting my ePub books with Calibre to be a better method.
I doubt it's a bug considering Amazon mails you the list of what's supported and epub isn't on there. It's likely they didn't used to screen file names, then realized they were wasting server time on files they didn't technically support and started screening them. Renaming to .png might just be enough to get past the screen and into their converter that doesn't care about file extensions.

Calibre is 100% more convenient. My problem is Calibre doesn't really support ePUB3 standards at all. Fixed layouts, right-to-left text, vertical text etc. will end up with a broken document pretty much guaranteed. In either direction. I've found using kindlegen to make AZW3s from EPUBs and kindleunpack to make EPUBs from AZW3s is a lot more accurate to the source document.
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