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Old 01-21-2024, 02:42 PM   #17
tomsem
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Going through the 80 or so comics/graphic novels in my Kindle library, it is a mixed bag. Most are just containers for page images and be converted to another format in more or less a straightforward way. At least one has images for 2 page spreads, and I had to figure out how to split them in half first.

So for these, it is a question about how much work I want to with adding navigation features (table of contents or hyperlinks), which is usually lacking in the original format.

Another handful are evidently FXL ePub that were converted to Kindle format, and text is selectable and so forth. The most straightforward target should be back to FXL ePub, but I'm not sure calibre handles it correctly (Kovid does not claim that it does).

I tried it, but Kindle Previewer 3 complains about unresolved hyperlinks, calibre edit finds another set of errors, but epubcheck only complains about encrypted fonts. It's probably 'okay' unless I want to add it as a personal document for Kindle (say after adding navigation features). Then I'd need to at least fix the hyperlinks. I should also see how Sigil likes these.

At least one is in Print Replica format, which is not currently amenable to DRM removal.

It's looking more like FXL ePub may be my preferred format, as opposed to PDF or CBZ. But I would like to find some alternative to InDesign for creating them from scratch.

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