01-13-2024, 02:19 PM | #1 |
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Calibre conversion issue
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I'm trying to convert a short story for reading on my Kindle. The story is a web page. Saving the web page as HTML and loading it into Calibre usually works. When I save https://www.tor.com/2017/07/19/the-martian-obelisk/ (save as web page, html only, Firefox, mac), and add it as a book, then try to open it by double clicking, I get an error: "Unable to expand "the martian Obelisk...Unknown.zip" It is in an unsupported format" But the file is not a zip, it's HTML (with an inordinately long header block, but still, clean html that I can read with an editor, and I tried emptying the entire header block from the local archive.)So I think there's a bug in perhaps the format recognizer code? Either way, I'd appreciate advice on working around the issue. |
01-13-2024, 04:20 PM | #2 |
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I copy/paste into LO Writer and fix formatting etc.
In this case I'd paste unformatted text, add image, save odt and save as docx for Calibre after sorting styles. HTML from real web sites is unreliable. Last edited by Quoth; 01-13-2024 at 04:25 PM. |
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I am using Widows 11 if that helps. |
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01-13-2024, 05:23 PM | #4 | |
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Asking to help narrow it down. |
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01-13-2024, 05:26 PM | #5 | |
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We agree html can be all over the place. What I saw (after I deleted all the cruft in the <header> block) seemed like reasonable and simple html, but I didn't read down to see how much cruft came after the body. |
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01-13-2024, 06:10 PM | #6 | |
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It only took less than 10 minutes to create the epub. Most of that was fiddling with the cover. So try this... |
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01-13-2024, 06:39 PM | #7 |
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I did a Save page as and code Web page HTML only. I then dragged/dropped the HTML file into the calibre library window. I then selected it and hit E on the keyboard. I put the graphic in the story as the cover. Clicked OK and then converted to ePub.
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01-13-2024, 06:42 PM | #8 | |
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I did a quick copy and paste of the document and spent a minute doing cleanup to generate an ePub. Last edited by DNSB; 01-13-2024 at 06:44 PM. Reason: I should have noticed that Karellen had already posted an epub but will leave my version |
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01-14-2024, 11:38 AM | #9 |
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Huh. I could swear I had converted files without the E step in the past but thank you!
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01-14-2024, 12:40 PM | #10 |
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Thanks to @DNSB and @Karellen for doing the conversions for me!
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