Conversion mystery

BeccaPrice · 01-02-2012, 02:07 PM

I don't know whether this belongs here, or in the Sigil or the Kindle forum...

University of Chicago's free book this month is Collections of Nothing. I downloaded it, and it came across in ADE as a PDF. I brought it into Calibre so I could convert it and read it on my Kindle.

There are two pages of odd symbols - in the original PDF, it looks like they're just there as textured pages separating text.

I converted the file to epub and opened it in Sigil and deleted the odd symbols, and re-brought it into Calibre, and converted the file to mobi again.

The symbols are not there in the Sigil file, or when I view the file with Calibre. But they're definitely still there in the mobi version. I know I deleted the original mobi file before I converted the pdf to epub with Calibre for editing in Sigil.

There's so much I don't know about ebook files... can anyone suggest any reason why edits in Sigil don't show up in the mobi file after conversion?

sadievan · 01-03-2012, 01:16 PM

One of my books from the library, an Adobe ADE epub had strange symbols in them. I reconverted to epub and mobi and the new files were fine. No more strange symbols.

Carol

01-02-2012, 02:07 PM	#1
BeccaPrice Wizard Posts: 2,146 Karma: 11174187 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony 350, K3-3G, K4SO, KPW	Conversion mystery I don't know whether this belongs here, or in the Sigil or the Kindle forum... University of Chicago's free book this month is Collections of Nothing. I downloaded it, and it came across in ADE as a PDF. I brought it into Calibre so I could convert it and read it on my Kindle. There are two pages of odd symbols - in the original PDF, it looks like they're just there as textured pages separating text. I converted the file to epub and opened it in Sigil and deleted the odd symbols, and re-brought it into Calibre, and converted the file to mobi again. The symbols are not there in the Sigil file, or when I view the file with Calibre. But they're definitely still there in the mobi version. I know I deleted the original mobi file before I converted the pdf to epub with Calibre for editing in Sigil. There's so much I don't know about ebook files... can anyone suggest any reason why edits in Sigil don't show up in the mobi file after conversion?

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01-03-2012, 01:16 PM	#2
sadievan Wizard Posts: 1,931 Karma: 5456284 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2, iPhone, Kindle Fire HD 6	One of my books from the library, an Adobe ADE epub had strange symbols in them. I reconverted to epub and mobi and the new files were fine. No more strange symbols. Carol

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