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Originally Posted by blacksmith1
Dear Hitch,
Hi again and thanks so much for your reply.
Converting AZW3 file to epub using Calibre lose book formatting
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Firstly, although I'm not a huge proponent of using Calibre for formatting, that most certainly should not occur. Calibre does a relatively decent job of retaining the formatting from one format to the other. If you had an ePUB, it would be relatively simple, I'd think, to generate the AZK files that you need.
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What I want is to read Kindle ebooks on Kindle app for iPad
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Yes, I understand that. Is it silly of me to ask why you don't just download the iOS-compatible versions from Amazon?????? Instead of this goat-rope?
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Scenario 1: Using Kindle Previewer 3.28, I convert AZW3 to mobi. Using iTunes, I sideload mobi file to my Kindle app for iPad
Result: book does not show on Kindle app for iPad
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Well, I'm not sure why it won't display, in k4iOS; my clients manage to do this all the time, putting a mobi on an iOS device, which means that they don't get the 'best" display, but the file is definitely THERE. You must be doing something wrong. Have you simply emailed the MOBI to yourself at your iPad email address, and then used "open with?" That should work, if all you want to do is read the book on your iPad. If you're acutely sensitive to the formatting, then you're going to want the AZK version, of course.
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Note: converting AZW3 to mobi using Calibre or Epubor Ultimate lead to that the book shows successfully on Kindle app for iPad. Additionally, all mobi file generated by all softwares other than Kindle Previewer are sideloaded and show successfully on Kindle app for iPad
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OK, so...then what's the problem? If you're seeing that on K4iOS?
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Question 1: before converting AZW3 to mobi using Kindle Previewer, is there is specific editing for AZW3 so that it can show on Kindle app for iPad
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No. You can take pretty much any mobi file and convert it to AZK. There's no pre-coding needed that's special for AZK. It's converted by KP3.xx.
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Scenario 2: Using Kindle Previewer 3.28, I convert AZW3 to azk. Using iTunes, I sideload azk file to my Kindle app for iPad
Result: book shows on Kindle for iPad but with one problem; newly sideloaded book overwrites the previously sideloaded one. Meaning that only one book shows. This applies to all books converted using Kindle Previewer version 3.28. Other books converted using Kindle Previewer earlier version (I can't remember version exactly) do show successfully
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Why don't you email Preveiwer support? WITHOUT all the other information, about DRM, your source file, and so forth? Just tell them what you're telling us--that your AZKs are overwriting each other?
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Question 2: may you please help in getting an older version of Kindle Previewer? For example 3.21 or earlier
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Well, if you want to send me a file, I can make an AZK file for you with an older version, but I suspect that there's something else amiss.