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Old 07-16-2020, 04:46 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
"azw" is a file extension that is sometimes used by Amazon for different formats. If you are referring to the old MOBI format, which Amazon currently calls MOBI7, then conversion from that to EPUB or PDF via calibre usually works well.

That is, if the original book was formatted correctly to begin with. There are a lot of self-published books available on Amazon with horrible formatting and conversion won't fix that.

If you mention a specific book it will be easier to be more specific.
If you do convert a self-published KF8 or Mobi to ePub, check the code in the ePub because it very well could need fixing because a lot of eBooks self-published are just nasty under the hood.
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