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Originally Posted by TheSmitty
Yes, comics. I am also trying to make an effort to switch from my Kindle(s) to my Libra Colour and comics are an issue. As a matter of fact I have a recent post asking for help about this. I have been googling the hell out of it and have pieced together a process that worked, at least for the one comic I have tried so far. It involves a bit of peanut butter gargling so hold on...
First step, you only need to do this once...Under Calibre 'Preferences->Interface->Toolbars and menus->main toolbar add Unpack book.
Then for each comic you need to do the following:
1. Import the Kindle AZW3 into Calibre.
2. With that comic highlighted choose Unpack book.
3. Select AZW3 in pop up dialog, hit Explode book.
4. After that runs, it opens file explorer to the exploded comic. Within Images subdirectory is the comic. There are other subs but I have no idea yet what they are or if you need them.
5. I would copy contents of images subdirectory to somewhere else as the directory you are brought to is a temporary directory which goes POOF when you exit Unpack book dialog.
6. Next, select all images in image sub, right click, select Compress to ZIP
7. rename zip to something meaningful and change file extension to .CBZ (Not sure if need to change extension or not, but I did)
8. close the Unpack book dialog.
9. within Calibre add the newly created CBZ file to library.
10. Connect the Kobo
11. Send that new file to the Kobo, eject and enjoy.
All that worked for me. The comic I tried it with was Dune The Graphic Novel Book 1. It is now on my Kobo Colour and looks great.
I am hoping there is a simpler way to do this and someone will call me out on it or answer my other post. I hope this works for you.
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Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! I had a few beautiful DK books (e.g. Ancient Egypt, Cultural Treasures) that I could not convert successfully from kindle to use on my Kobo Colour. I tried everything with the Kindle Unpack plugin and various ePub editors etc. but could not get them to convert to ePub successfully. (They always stuck at 47% or 67%).
Using your method, I was able to extra the images and import these books as CBZ format. The pages are like scanned image files which are non-reflowable, so I figured it was worth a try. Well - apart from no longer showing 2 page view in landscape mode - they function perfectly on my new reader.
