Can someone help me with this Azw4 nightmare conversion that never ends?

[sallysue]

This has been the nightmare of all nightmares here. I am also a long time lurker, but never posted, btw.

I originally rented this ebook textbook, then bought the book- book was then a non-drm.

By using the unpack plugins I was somehow able to convert it to a PDF- and I honestly do not know how. However, from the PDF I could not split the book by printing to file, nor could I convert the book to anything remotely near a suitable text to speech format. I was using both a Win 7 and Win 8 configs.
I knew I was going to Mac, so I was trying to be patient while my new computer arrived. The windows were both similar in specs to net books and had very little memory and were both quite old and had really been through it over the years.
I keep the Win 7 around just for TTS on the Kindle app. I read a ton ton ton for school, my eyes get tired, I loose my place, etc etc. It is a huge deal to me to have the books either read to me or be able to change my font to different colors like the beeline reader font.

Anyway...it was a headache and a half getting *my* copy of a nDRM version. I actually bought this book twice trying to get rid of any "rental" issues that may have been lingering. So now I have a rental older e-edition of this book, and I have bought two copies of this current edition text book and I cannot get it to PDF or EPUB.

The current issues are pasted below with what I see when I attempt to unpack with the plugin. When I attempt to convert the long way, it gets stuck at 67%. When I did get it to convert on the Win machine- (after the lone semi successful attempt) it would only pull text associated with images.

I actually need the opposite. I wouldn't mind not having the images in the book if I could have the text either editable/splittable or TTS capable (mobile preferred.)

Does anyone have any insight into this at all?




calibre, version 2.40.0
ERROR: KindleUnpack - The Plugin v0.81.2: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.kindleunpack_plugin.action", line 291, in extract_element
File "calibre_plugins.kindleunpack_plugin.mobi_stuf f", line 105, in getPDFFile
File "calibre_plugins.kindleunpack_plugin.kindleunpack. kindleunpack", line 875, in unpackBook
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

[sallysue]

I just read where conversion to an Epub may be too large for this file so I am trying it with splitting it at 100 mB. I will update.

[eschwartz]

Huh? How do you "split" an AZW4?



AZW4 is a plain wrapper around a PDF -- no conversion necessary. If KindleUnpack is running out of memory before finishing the Unpack, you need a computer with more RAM.
You must use a 64-bit OS as well!


Alternatively, you can try the standalone KindleUnpack python application, which should be linked on the KindleUnpack calibre plugin thread.

[sallysue]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Huh? How do you "split" an AZW4?



AZW4 is a plain wrapper around a PDF -- no conversion necessary. If KindleUnpack is running out of memory before finishing the Unpack, you need a computer with more RAM.
You must use a 64-bit OS as well!


Alternatively, you can try the standalone KindleUnpack python application, which should be linked on the KindleUnpack calibre plugin thread.

Thanks, I am putting it away for the day. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, again. Will see.

Yes, this is a 64 bit computer, with 16 gb of Ram. I think I must be doing something wrong somewhere. I have to be to keep having this issue on three different computers.

[eschwartz]

Those specs sound pretty decent.

Hopefully the standalone version of KindleUnpack will yield better results -- these errors are known to happen.

[kovidgoyal]

Make sure you are running the 64bit version of calibre on your 64bit computer.