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Old 10-08-2019, 09:48 AM   #308
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Originally Posted by auroraborealis View Post
i can see in the hex editor that the book is there, but if i open it in calibre it shows garbled text, like a bunch of UUIDs, ...
A book in KFX format should be automatically converted for viewing when opened in the calibre viewer as long as the KFX Input plugin is installed. It works for me. Perhaps there is an incorrect setting in your calibre installation.

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... and kindle previewer 3 seems to not recognize the kfx extension, and when i change the extension to something like 'kpf' (one of the ones it says it supports), it actually crashes the app, heh
The Kindle Previewer expects books in KFX format to have a .azw8 extension. This post provides a method of also allowing it to open files with a .kfx extension if you are using Windows.

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Originally Posted by auroraborealis View Post
post #1 of this thread says that azw3 is superior for converting than KFX, does that still hold true today?
Yes.
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