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Old Yesterday, 04:12 PM   #376
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I received one PDF and I'm not certain why. It was a 3 book series. Books 1 and 3 were ePubs, book 2 was a PDF. I'm tempted to call them cozy science fiction.
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I'm yet to see a PDF.

Has anyone here gotten a PDF file instead? And what kind of ebook was that, if so?
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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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As far as I can tell a PDF is generated from a reflowable book in cases where Amazon's export to EPUB fails for some reason. I have not yet seen any PDFs produced from fixed-layout books, such as comics.

The content is generated from the Kindle edition, not a scan of a paper edition. Text can be searched and highlighted. Images are high resolution. External links work, however internal ones appear to be broken.

The PDF is sized like a typical hard cover book using 5.5x8.5 inch pages. For me it would be difficult to read on a typical e-reader screen. (See attached.)
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Only had 2 download as pdf so far. Both from Tor, both by James White. Beginning Operations and Mind Changer.

The amazon version is definitely a poorly cleaned up OCR of the paperback. Originally written in the 60s, published in paperback in the 70s, ebook early 2000s.

I periodically check to see if there's an epub version but considered how rough the amazon version is...
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Only had 2 download as pdf so far. Both from Tor, both by James White. Beginning Operations and Mind Changer.

The amazon version is definitely a poorly cleaned up OCR of the paperback. Originally written in the 60s, published in paperback in the 70s, ebook early 2000s.

I periodically check to see if there's an epub version but considered how rough the amazon version is...
Both of those books are available as epub on eBooks.com, but I don't know how good the version is. $11.99.

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Both of those books are available as epub on eBooks.com, but I don't know how good the version is. $11.99.

Jim
Thanks, I'll check into it. I know where alot of the OCR mish-mash words and paragraphs are.

But, out of the 400 plus amz downloads that I've done only those 2 have been pdf - age? starting condition of the source file?

Just wish you could consistently tell if a purchase would give you a downloaded epub.
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I've gotten a good number of ebooks from Amazon using their download option, and all have been zip files, that proved to be epubs.

I'm yet to see a PDF.

Has anyone here gotten a PDF file instead? And what kind of ebook was that, if so?

I tend to see PDF files as more image/graphic related ebooks ... comic, magazine, etc.
I haven't bothered downloading many, but I recall finding a couple random pdfs in a series from Brandon Sanderson with Tor. I haven't bought anything from Amazon since the end of last year. Well before they cut off the remaining methods to reliably get books in non-kfx format.

None of the comics I have which should be DRM-free had the download option. Possible that they got them later. I haven't checked. Many of them were originally purchased from Comixology before Amazon shut it down. With Comixology, you could download those in both pdf and cbz.
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I haven't even checked which of my Kindle purchases have epub downloads. I don't want an Amazon epub anyway, even a KFX is preferable to that. So, as long as the DRM can be removed, I'll download my Amazon ebooks via the Windows app, and if Amazon disables that method, I won't buy any more Amazon ebooks.
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