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Originally Posted by hobnail
… my interpretation is that she's wondering if she should convert the book to epub and then convert it to kfx. You're right if the book is available for download in both mobi and epub; download the epub and ignore the mobi.
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Though don't download mobi or epub from wayback, download PDF (extract OCR and edit / proof in Wordprocessor if you want decent epub/kf8 etc).
Mobi is best from Gutenberg and Faded Pages because they likely add formatting you don't want to have in epub.
Convert it to epub2 in Calibre with Smarten Punctuation, Fully Justify (leaves headings etc as is) and remove paragraph spacing. I change the default indent from 1.5 em to 1.4 em, but 1.2 to 1.7 works and is matter of taste.
I use regex aided search to ditch inline page numbers. Sometimes I make first paragraph have no indent and remove drop caps and small caps. Search for closing tag of chapter or centred scene break with start of <p class="whatever"
replace "whatever" with "no-indent"
Find & copy the .whatever class in CSS with new name .no-indent and set the text-indent=0 instead of 1.4 em etc.
Remove any line-height lines in CSS, especially body CSS.