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Old 01-21-2026, 03:19 PM   #130
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
I've now downloaded 6 books and each one has the same atrocious internals. From what I've seen, it does appear that @jhowell in message #18 in this thread was correct and Amazon is generating the ePub from a KPF using Kindle Create or similar code.
I looked at the newest 250 Kindle book purchases on my account and of those 21 were downloadable. Nine came as .pdf and the other twelve as .zip that I needed to rename to .epub.

Now that I have this feature I can confirm that the EPUBs look like those produced by Amazon's Kindle Create tool. One style sheet per chapter, lots of <div>'s and <span>'s, each with its own class, but no semantic markup such as <p> or <h>.

All of the books that downloaded for me as PDF are reflowable on Kindle. I don't see any particular pattern other than they are mostly larger and more complex books. Perhaps if the conversion to EPUB fails they fallback to delivering PDF instead.
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