Thread: Convert ePub to KePub (400 books, already on Kobo)?
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Old 10-16-2019, 12:18 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader View Post
Similarly an Amazon KFX has no advantage for the user compared with azw/KF8 when the source uploaded to Amazon was an epub2.
The problem (IMHO) is that KFX is not actually needed. Adobe did all the typesetting using ADE and ePub stayed the same. No changes were needed for ePub to have "enhanced typesetting". Amazon could have done the same for KF8. But they created KFX so they can keep them encrypted and not have true DRM free eBooks where you get the source code. KFX is the format that Amazon uses for kerning and hyphenation. But it's already proven that youdon't need KFX to do this as KF8 could do this if Amazon wanted to allow it.

I think any eBook that's DRM free should not be able to be converted to KFX as KFX is not DRM free. The only reason KFX can be dealt with outside of a Kindle or Kindle app is because of the work of some on MR.
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