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Old 07-12-2022, 01:52 PM   #1536
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I grabbed a free book from Amazon. When I went to add it to Calibre with the method in this thread (Kindle 1.17), I got a .MOBI file, but the content was some 3000 pages of:

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(in fact, I had to use the ebook-viewer.exe from Calibre 3.48 just to get it to load)

I tested with another free book and got an AZW3 as expected. Does anybody know what happened here?

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