@DiapDealer, history from the horse's mouth, thanks!
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
At the time, it was deemed rather pointless for the plugin to preserve a drm-free version of the original topaz format. Only Kindle devices could render them (and they could never be converted into other formats without the mess that resulted from the conversion to HTMLZ).
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I looked at the htmlz. I find the conversion of topaz images blocks to .svg quite ingenious and remarquable. Kudo for the "mess".
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The plugin never even made an attempt to convert the topaz format itself. It wasn't at all feasible. It only used the underlying (and usually quite terrible and unformatted) original (sometimes OCRed) text that was only included to make it possible for the Kindle search function to still work.
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Too bad the plugin can't just deDRM and optionally skip the conversion. Good point, Topaz contained "hidden" text after all, to accomodate the search.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I had several of them at one time. Most of them rendered quite beautifully on Kindles. You just couldn't really do anything with them other than read them.
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I was given one by a friend, along with the serial number of is now defunct K3, the converted htmlz reads perfectly. I would have liked to compare on a real device, maybe test annotations, bookmarks, notes ...etc.