Thread: Kindle to utilize epub format in late 2022
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Old 05-05-2022, 08:08 AM   #65
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
You can fix it by using the "Encode HTML in UTF-8" option of the Modify EPUB plugin for calibre.


The problem occurs because although the EPUB specification requires Unicode encoding Amazon's kindlegen assumes that the default encoding is ISO 8859-1 if it is not specified in the EPUB. This is a holdover from the old Mobipocket Creator software that produced the original MOBI format.

In my case, an epub-to-epub conversion with the "unsmarten punctuation" checked (under Look & Feel, Text tab...) fixed the aforementioned problem with quotation marks. I'll try the encoding plug-in if other issues occur, thanks.

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While epub as an option would surely be great, when .mobi and .azw3 are no longer supported as the announcement says, older kindle devices may be more cumbersome to use... Today, the epub emailed by Calibre was converted to azw3 on a good-old Kindle 5. Possibly, it won't be delivered at all after August?
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