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05-05-2022, 07:52 AM | #62 |
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You can fix it by using the "Encode HTML in UTF-8" option of the Modify EPUB plugin for calibre.
The problem occurs because although the EPUB specification requires Unicode encoding Amazon's kindlegen assumes that the default encoding is ISO 8859-1 if it is not specified in the EPUB. This is a holdover from the old Mobipocket Creator software that produced the original MOBI format. |
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05-05-2022, 08:08 AM | #65 | |
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In my case, an epub-to-epub conversion with the "unsmarten punctuation" checked (under Look & Feel, Text tab...) fixed the aforementioned problem with quotation marks. I'll try the encoding plug-in if other issues occur, thanks. ... While epub as an option would surely be great, when .mobi and .azw3 are no longer supported as the announcement says, older kindle devices may be more cumbersome to use... Today, the epub emailed by Calibre was converted to azw3 on a good-old Kindle 5. Possibly, it won't be delivered at all after August? |
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05-05-2022, 08:44 AM | #66 | |
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.azw3 replaced it. The only thing that's gonna change is we're gonna lose covers in exchange for more font options. That's pretty much it. |
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This is about making sure that MOBI files are only created using Amazon’s own tool (kindlegen) that also produces the newer KF8 format along with the means to synchronize reading position and annotations between the two formats. |
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05-05-2022, 09:01 AM | #68 |
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Not true. You won’t be able to email a MOBI file after August. The whole idea is to get people to Email EPUB files so that Amazon can convert them to KF8 for delivery to the devices that support it
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05-05-2022, 09:11 AM | #69 |
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@hleo12 & jhowell: Thank you both for the clarifications... Better than what I suspected then.
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05-05-2022, 10:34 AM | #71 | |
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MOBI format originated with the French company MobiPocket which Amazon purchased in 2005. In order to support improvements to the format over time each MOBI file has a version number associated with it. Versions up to 7 are considered by Amazon to be MOBI7 and version 8 is called KF8 (Kindle Format 8). In addition there is Master-MOBI produced by kindlegen which contains version 8 along with an older version in a single file. The file extension .azw is used in different ways depending on the reading app/device. On a Kindle device it is used for MOBI7 files, but in the Kindle for PC app it can contain any Kindle format including KF8 or KFX (Kindle format 10). While .azw can be used for different formats, the file extension .azw3 is only used for KF8. Some other file extensions used to refer to various Kindle formats are .mobi, .prc, .kfx, .azk, .azw4, .azw6, .azw8, and .azw9. calibre uses it's own terminology for Kindle formats which differs from that used by Amazon. Last edited by jhowell; 05-05-2022 at 11:11 AM. |
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MobiPocket... That brings back so many memories. It used to be my ereader app back in my Nokia days.
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05-05-2022, 10:55 AM | #73 |
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We can still sideload with MOBI, right? This is just about the format we email in going forward?
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But since you're sideloading books anyways, it's probably better to convert them to a more recent format to take advantage of more font settings. |
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