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Old 02-15-2018, 10:34 AM   #1
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Impossibile to convert kindle to ePub

Hi, I’m new here, I’ve never experienced any issue converting my kindle books to ePub books before. Now, I purchased a book on Amazon and, as always, I converted it with Calibre to add it in my Ebooks reader. When I opened it on ebooks I discovered that every single page is cutted, only about 1/4 of it is visible. After this I tried to convert it with so many other apps, but the resulting ePub is always the same. Any of you have already experienced this? I’m thinking Amazon changed something to avoid conversion. I also tried to downgrade to an older version of Kindle but nothing changed.
Hope you can help, thank you for reading and sorry for my bad English 😊
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Old 02-15-2018, 10:40 AM   #2
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What are you using to obtain the Kindle book file? Kindle for PC/Mac, an eInk Kindle...??

"Kindle Format" can be a lot of different formats often using the same extension (Mobi, KF8/AZW3, KFW, Topaz, etc.) and it's possible you've run into one that can't be as easily converted (such as a new version of Kindle for PC downloading KFX).
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Old 02-15-2018, 10:54 AM   #3
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You need to give more detail than Kindle to ePub. Kindle is not an eBook format. So please don't use Kindle as though it was an eBook format.
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Old 02-15-2018, 11:16 AM   #4
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Sorry I forgot to tell you I use Kindle for Mac, I first tried with he latest version 1.21 and then with 1.17 but nothing changed. In both cases the format was azw.
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Maybe it's a fixed layout KF8.
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Old 02-15-2018, 12:32 PM   #6
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Sorry but I’m not into this matter, I don’t understand what that means and what should I do.
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One thing is to tell us what book it is so someone can download a sample and try converting.
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Old 02-15-2018, 02:05 PM   #8
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It’s “Le Grand Livre de la Boulangerie”
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Old 02-15-2018, 02:20 PM   #9
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I took a look at the free sample on Amazon and it is definitely fixed layout.
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https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Livre-B.../dp/B077414HJM

If no one else gets a chance to look at it earlier, I'll give it a look tonight if I get some free time.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see jhowell's got it covered.
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Old 02-15-2018, 02:50 PM   #11
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What does it mean? That is not convertible?
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What does it mean? That is not convertible?
Not easily and the effort it would take to convert it to not worth the effort. You'd have to be able to modify the code significantly to be able to convert it.
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What does it mean? That is not convertible?
Basically, fixed layout is page oriented like a pdf so the nearest equivalent without a lot of editing would be to an epub3 fixed layout which very few ereaders can handle. If you have a Kobo touchscreen ereader and rename the file from .epub to .fxl.kepub.epub, it will display a fixed layout epub3 properly.
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I’ll never be able to modify the code, it’s so frustrating after I spent the money to be obligated to read it on kindle app since all my books are on Books library.
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Is there anyway to look at an Amazon eBook listing and tell if it is fixed layout?
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