11-18-2018, 04:53 AM | #1 |
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Does Calibre ruin the epub formatting?
I'm planning to get a 2016 Paperwhite soon, it's my first e-reader ever. I've read that you can use Calibre to convert epubs to the kindle's format, however I'm afraid that the formatting in the epub book (spacing, content pages, etc) will be ruined/screwed up. I've read quite a number of books that had their words spaced out weirdly and formats a little wonky, presumably due to bad conversion. Wondering if that will be the same on Calibre, or am I better off buying books on Amazon instead? I have tons of epub books on my computer so I'm hoping that they can be read on the kindle, too.
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11-18-2018, 05:38 AM | #2 |
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Moved to the Calibre conversion forum.
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11-18-2018, 06:00 AM | #3 |
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Calibre conversion can change the formatting, even converting from epub to epub can introduce changes.
If the book's formatting was bad to start with, the Calibre conversion can sometimes actually improve it. But if the formatting was good to start with then the converted book is usually not quite as good. That is what I have found with epub to epub conversions anyway, I usually have to do a bit of manual editing afterwards to fix up the problems. |
11-18-2018, 06:48 AM | #4 |
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I've converted hundreds and hundreds of ePub books to Kindle format over the years. 99.9% of the time it works absolutely fine. I could probably count on the fingers of one hand the occasions on which the formatting has changed sufficiently as a result of the conversion that I've found it necessary to manually intervene.
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11-18-2018, 10:37 AM | #5 |
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EPUB to AZW3 usually works.
Dropcaps and first letters with an embedded font sometimes give issues with placement ( I think this is a K4 issue, as kindle preview renders them correct) |
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11-19-2018, 12:21 AM | #8 |
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replying to post #1 - if you are about to buy your 1st ever e-reader , then I an guessing you don't already have hundreds of epubs.
so conversion is the wrong question really. you can buy a kindle, and then start buying your books from amazon ( no conversion needed) or you can buy a Kobo and start buying your (epub/kepub) books from them, or from an independent epub store ( do any of those still exist? ) as for which is better - there a whole forum section for " which one shoudl I buy" |
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