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Old 03-27-2021, 09:06 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
Now, if your question is whether to use HTML or EPUB from Gutenberg. Well, note that in the vast majority of cases (I guess), the EPUB is an automated conversion from HTML, so you probably don't gain much... The best would be to start from HTML and manually create the EPUB, but that's a lot of work, and it's what has been done with many of the books in our (MobileRead's) library.
I suspect they start with the Kindle/Mobi as it seems best to import to Calibre. Converting that to epub works better than downloading the epub.

Oddly Amazon is often the other way round. Best KDP upload format is epub followed by docx. Then Amazon convert that to ALL the Kindle formats and you get what Amazon thinks best suits the Kindle registered and selected.
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