Thread: Handling KFX files in Calibre
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Old 09-29-2017, 02:20 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
One difficulty is that Calibre is designed to handle books that are in a single file, but a KFX book consists of the book file itself, and then an auxiliary folder containing images, etc. Any attempt to store KFX files in Calibre would presumably necessitate putting the various components of the book in a ZIP file (or something similar), and the Kindle device drivers then modifying to unpack them again when the book was saved to disk or sent to the device.
Not to mention that, if you want an EPUB, all the files would need to be unpacked, the EPUB created from scratch (directory structure, etc), all links would need to be changed, and if everything is done, the file would need to be repacked. While repacking an EPUB file is probably already in the Calibre API, combining all the KFX files into an EPUB-valid structure and rewriting all the links isn't. A completely new plugin would need to be written, debugged, and supported.
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