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Old 03-01-2025, 10:28 AM   #1
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Question EPUB->KFX conversion and first word "flickering"?

Hi!
I've converted some epub files to kfx using Calibre on Windows (with Kindle Previewer 3), so I can read them natively on my Kindle (it is without using KOReader) and they work, but:

1 - time left in chapter. It's totally wrong, eg. it says time left in book 5h 20min and time left in chapter is almost always the same (while there are many chapters left and that value should be different). It recognizes "chapters" correctly if that matters - I mean I can go see "book contents" and select through 1-20 different chapters and their names.

2 - pages. In my Calibre application I've added count pages plugin and it's downloading pages from goodreads, then they are displayed in the custom "pages" column. When I was uploading them as epubs and reading using KOReader pages were correct and now they are different. What I did when converting was epub input kfx output (I have KFX INPUT and KFX OUTPUT plugins installed too) and I checked under kfx output tab "create approximate page numbers" and here are 2 options. Either "(auto)" or "#pages" and both of them provide the wrong output (or at least I think so?)

And the last question is about my Kindle device in general. When I change page there is a "flickering/flashing" of the FIRST WORD ONLY at each page. It doesn't happen all the time, but it does it often. For example I can read 5 pages and that first word on every page will "flicker" about 3-5 times (very fast) and then for the next 10 pages I won't have that issue, but then again it happens. It's very annoying and I weren't able to find any information about that problem online, so maybe it's a faulty device?
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