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Old 02-27-2025, 07:54 PM   #2
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How are you getting PDFs from Gutenberg on a regular basis? The books I've looked at have had:

EPUB3 (also for Send to Kindle)
EPUB (no images)
Kindle (delivers -kf8.mobi so rename to .azw3)
Older Kindles (delivers .mobi)
Plain text (UTF-8)
HTML (in a .zip file)

I just did a random check of 20 books and nary a .pdf to be found. According to Gutenberg's documentation, "Project Gutenberg has some PDF files that were created from other markup (TeX, LaTeX or others), usually for math-heavy eBooks."

As for your Paperwhite only reading mobi format? As far as I am aware, any Paperwhite can read mobi, KF8/azw3 and KFX for Amazon formats plus PDF and TXT. I downloaded the .mobi and-kf8.mobi download of Little Fuzzy (pg18137), rename the -kf8.mobi version to .azw3 and copied them to my PW4 and no issues with displaying them.

I checked Gutenberg for the USA, Canada and Australia.
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File Type: mobi pg18137-images.mobi (337.5 KB, 56 views)
File Type: mobi pg18137-images-kf8.mobi (349.5 KB, 56 views)
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