Thread: Why do some authors only offer their ebooks on Amazon?
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Old 06-02-2022, 01:30 PM   #141
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Originally Posted by Freshmaker View Post
@JSWolf Just curious, what is the advantage of using KindleUnpack to convert to epub rather than using the built in converter in Calibre?
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KindleUnpack produces an EPUB that preserves the content and structure of the kindle book. That is, if an EPUB is converted to a kindle format with kindlegen then back to EPUB with KindleUnpack, that EPUB will be close to the same as the original EPUB. A calibre conversion will be quite different.
Another reason to minimize the number of calibre conversion steps in an ebook conversion processing chain is that calibre by default lossily converts JPEG images in each step.

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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
I haven??t really used Calibre in a long while. However, back when I used it, even with tablet as output, it would still do lossy JPEG to lossy JPEG recompression instead of just using the original images as-is. One of the reasons I prefer using KindleUnpack instead.
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