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Old 07-23-2020, 05:18 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
I think the idea that you need to stay with 1.17 and avoid KFX entirely is quite out of date.
I use Kindle for PC 1.24.3, download as KFX, and they import into Calibre fine with the KFX Input plugin.
There might be issues with later versions of Kindle for PC.
(Edit: I do then read the books on an Kobo Aura ONE )
If nothing else, KFX is an iffy format to convert from. It's easy enough to see if you take an AZW3 with the embedded source and extract the source and then compare viewing that compared to viewing the output of decompiling the same book in KFX. Not quite up to the weirdness that can be found when converting a PDF to another format but it still gives some annoying glitches.

To quote the author of the KFX Input plugin:

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Amazon's KF8 (azw3) format is superior to KFX as a source for conversion since it more closely matches the original format provided to Amazon by the publisher. This plugin has limited usefulness as long as KF8 is still easily obtainable.
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