Some Kindle Books Shows Gibberish After Converting With Calibre

ibis91 · 09-25-2021, 01:49 PM

Namaste,
Greetings from India, I am new to using calibre and I have a wide library of books from kindle.
I am able to export some of the books to PDF using calibre without any problem but some of the books are showing gibberish text after being converted.
Is there any solution to this problem?
Please help
Thanks

jhowell · 09-25-2021, 06:31 PM

Some possibilities that come to mind are a failure in DRM removal or an AZW4 print replica book being treated as being in MOBI format.

It would be helpful if you would provide the ASIN or a link to the Amazon listing for one of the books that exhibit this problem.

luigi rovatti · 10-01-2021, 04:33 PM

I had a similar situation (ok, not like yours, but still...), maybe this will help: put the book on Calibre, click on "edit book", then on the left panel, select all the ".ttf" files, and delete them. Then, re-convert it. Because the problem is, most of the time this happens, the fonts are EMBEDDED in the book. So, the solution for that is this.

09-25-2021, 01:49 PM	#1
ibis91 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2021 Device: none	Some Kindle Books Shows Gibberish After Converting With Calibre Namaste, Greetings from India, I am new to using calibre and I have a wide library of books from kindle. I am able to export some of the books to PDF using calibre without any problem but some of the books are showing gibberish text after being converted. Is there any solution to this problem? Please help Thanks Attached Thumbnails

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09-25-2021, 06:31 PM	#2
jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,072 Karma: 91577715 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Charlottesville, VA Device: Kindles	Some possibilities that come to mind are a failure in DRM removal or an AZW4 print replica book being treated as being in MOBI format. It would be helpful if you would provide the ASIN or a link to the Amazon listing for one of the books that exhibit this problem.

10-01-2021, 04:33 PM	#3
luigi rovatti Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2020 Device: none	I had a similar situation (ok, not like yours, but still...), maybe this will help: put the book on Calibre, click on "edit book", then on the left panel, select all the ".ttf" files, and delete them. Then, re-convert it. Because the problem is, most of the time this happens, the fonts are EMBEDDED in the book. So, the solution for that is this.

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