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Originally Posted by Ma'am-I-Am
@Timboli
I use a PW2 also. How did you find out about the "conversion"? Were these books already on the PW2?
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Probably looking at the /documents/Downloads/Items01 directory and realizing that it is filled with KFX format ebooks and matching .sdr directories containing a voucher file a couple of levels down. Though I'm not sure if there was any conversion and simply that they did not realize their device was downloading KFX format files for years.
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Originally Posted by Ma'am-I-Am
I'm also unclear on exactly why KFX is considered such a horror.
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Unlike azw3/KF8 where you can extract the contents and they will be pretty close to the original ePub used to generate the file or an ePub generated from the docx input file, KFX is a semi-compiled format and a total pain to decompile (look at the KFX Input plugin thread in the calibre plugins forum. The output file will have little resemblance to the file used to generate the KFX file.
For my purposes, I have a mass of saved searches used in Sigil to clean up ePubs extracted from azw3/KFX files using KindleUnpack. By comparison, an ePub generated by the From KFX tool looks like the CSS has been run though a tool that uses junk stylenames making saved searches much less useful. I tend to avoid calibre's conversion pipeline since it is tends to munge multiple stylesheets together.