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_mcmc_ · 01-02-2021, 05:22 PM

Hello, I am sorry for what I assume is a basic and/or oft-answered question but I've searched and haven't found good answers:

I have several documents in PDFs from old classes (I work with classic texts so these are past copyright etc) in which each page in the PDF file represents two pages in what would be a printed format. I think these are sometimes called "open spreads", ie as if someone scanned an open book 2 page-sides at a time. I want to, and have students who want to, read these on a Kindle or other device in a regular format, ie each digital page representing a single printed page, without having to zoom in each time and all that. How can I convert these without going through each page of each document?

I have Calibre, but my first attempts at trying this through that didn't work. I would love any suggestion but please keep in mind I am intermediate-level tech savvy, prob beginner by the estimation of many here.

Thank you in advance.

01-02-2021, 05:22 PM	#1
_mcmc_ Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2021 Device: Kindle 4	"Open spread" PDFs to single page, batch convert Hello, I am sorry for what I assume is a basic and/or oft-answered question but I've searched and haven't found good answers: I have several documents in PDFs from old classes (I work with classic texts so these are past copyright etc) in which each page in the PDF file represents two pages in what would be a printed format. I think these are sometimes called "open spreads", ie as if someone scanned an open book 2 page-sides at a time. I want to, and have students who want to, read these on a Kindle or other device in a regular format, ie each digital page representing a single printed page, without having to zoom in each time and all that. How can I convert these without going through each page of each document? I have Calibre, but my first attempts at trying this through that didn't work. I would love any suggestion but please keep in mind I am intermediate-level tech savvy, prob beginner by the estimation of many here. Thank you in advance.