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Old 07-19-2026, 11:42 AM   #406
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Safari on Mac does not do that. I get ePub download. I think it is dependent on browser, not the OS.
On my iMac using MacOS 26.5.2 and Safari 26.5.2 my downloads from the Amazon website arrive as .zip files. Have not found a way to correctly unzip them. However, changing the file type from .zip to .epub allows them to be opened in Calibre. Editing the metadata is not automatic and involves cut and paste from the Amazon web site.
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Old 07-19-2026, 03:00 PM   #407
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On my iMac using MacOS 26.5.2 and Safari 26.5.2 my downloads from the Amazon website arrive as .zip files. Have not found a way to correctly unzip them. However, changing the file type from .zip to .epub allows them to be opened in Calibre. Editing the metadata is not automatic and involves cut and paste from the Amazon web site.
An ePub file is a zip file which likely why you are MacOS is downloading them as .zip files. If you look at the mimetype file in the root of the ePub zip container, it says: "application/epub+zip". Oddly, that file must be stored uncompressed and several ePub utilities screw that up by compresssing it.
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MacOS 26.5.2 and Safari 26.5.2
Safari tries to be "helpful" too much and messes with things. ISTR there are also other problems with Kindle firmware update downloads where it sees the .bin are really .zip and munges the filename instead of just taking the file as presented. Or it was CBZ or something else compressed with a custom file extension.
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On my iMac using MacOS 26.5.2 and Safari 26.5.2 my downloads from the Amazon website arrive as .zip files. Have not found a way to correctly unzip them. However, changing the file type from .zip to .epub allows them to be opened in Calibre. Editing the metadata is not automatic and involves cut and paste from the Amazon web site.
Solution. Install Firefox and use that instead of Safari.
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