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Originally Posted by Jacques Q.
Hello. Not sure this is the right place to post this message, but I found no thread dealing with the issue I have.
I got an EPub that can apparently only be managed by a software called Thorium (the file I get is in a .acpl format that I can't open with anything else).
Now : how do I manage to "free" this EPub ? I can't stand being chained to just my computer screen with a software that is obviously far, far from optimal, but there seems to be no option in DeDRM (sorry if I mention it, but obviously this is the only tool I know of that would/could/should allow me to do that) to "free" such files.
Would anyone have a suggestion regarding how to deal with this issue ? Thanks a lot in advance.
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Increase the text size (imagine you are reading on a 6-7" screen), and take a screen capture of each page (select region to crop any unwanted margins), maybe convert to a more more compressible image format, and make a PDF out of it (ideally OCR it). If you use a Mac the screen capture is very efficient, you could probably manage 30/min or more. Should be equally good capture tools for Windows. And all this sweat equity should indemnify you against piracy charges.
Kindle isn't spectacular with PDF, but it is not too bad.
As it happens I've just been giving myself a refresher on Kindle PDF support, as I haven't used it much recently and some details were fuzzy. (Scribe is deprecating PDF as part of positioning it as a Notebook device, and replacing it with Print Replica, originally developed for textbooks. When they're finished it should be more functional than the legacy PDF support, which will never get updated, or at least better integrated in the Kindleverse. Wanted some comparison points.)
Attaching a couple of screenshots for Portrait and Landscape. PDF page size is 6 x 9 in, and it is a 6" screen. But this is a worst case scenario. If you are making the PDF yourself from scratch, you can make the text arbitrarily bigger and margins arbitrarily narrow.
Landscape advances a strip at a time with page turn gestures, 3 strips in this case.
(I'm not actually going to read this book like this, just experimenting)
If it's OCRed, you can use dictionary lookup and search, even highlight and annotate. None of this syncs, and the only way to export is to find them in My Clippings.txt.