04-06-2018, 10:13 AM | #946 |
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is it stable?
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04-06-2018, 10:51 AM | #947 |
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04-06-2018, 12:11 PM | #948 |
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Very cool.
Even though I intend to stick with ADE 2.0.1 and EPUB as my main format for as long as possible, with K4PC 1.17 and KF8 as a backup, it's nice to know that KFX's DRM has been broken. The conversion plugin says that KF8 is superior for conversion (because the book is one file and the format is well known, I assume), but still, it's better than nothing if KF8 and/or EPUB ever ceases to be distributed. While I'm sure EPUB2 will be around for a long while to come, I can see Adobe, at some point, requiring ADE 4.x as the minimum software to download the books. (Almost forgot... Kobo KEPUB's, un-DRM'ed, converted and then cleaned, can also be made into regular EPUB's.) Thanks to everyone working at this stuff |
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04-06-2018, 04:47 PM | #950 | |
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KFX is far more highly processed and its content bears little resemblance to the original file from the publisher. The KFX Input plugin attempts to decompile it back into an EPUB, but the result will never be an exact match to what the publisher sent to Amazon. It will be good enough for reading since all of the text and most of the formatting is preserved. Last edited by jhowell; 04-06-2018 at 05:14 PM. |
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04-07-2018, 01:18 AM | #951 |
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My thanks to everyone involved.
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04-07-2018, 11:27 AM | #952 | |
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I don't mean to be overly-dramatic, I just want to make sure people understand. There IS an embedded pdf file in an azw4 that Kindleunpack merely "extracts." The creation of an epub from a KF8 kindlebook is bit more involved than "releasing the epub trapped inside." |
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04-07-2018, 12:08 PM | #953 |
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Always the resulting ePub won't pass epubcheck. But it's not difficult to fix with the Calibre editor.
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04-07-2018, 12:49 PM | #954 |
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No idea. I usually make some changes to the ePub and validate before side loading. So even if there were errors from the publisher, I'll have fixed them.
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04-07-2018, 06:57 PM | #957 |
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Well... since the last few years, this has become quite good, to be honest. I've not bought too many books since 2014, but the fixes I had to do were often very minor compared to what I had to do before that time. Very often, the fixes are only my preferences, and not needed per se.
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04-07-2018, 07:09 PM | #958 |
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Many thanks.
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But I digress. We can take this up elsewhere if need be. |
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