Quality of azw to epub conversion

Inquisitive_Ram · Today, 12:24 PM

Out of interest, when people convert from azw to epub and then view on a kobo, is the quality of the resultant ebook as good in terms of formatting as the azw is on the Kindle?

Sirtel · Today, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inquisitive_Ram

Out of interest, when people convert from azw to epub and then view on a kobo, is the quality of the resultant ebook as good in terms of formatting as the azw is on the Kindle?

Depends on what you mean by "quality" - different folks mean different things by it.

theducks · Today, 02:27 PM

I do it all the time for AZW3 (DRM gone)
AZW can include other format types internally that might not fare as well.

One thing I found is KEPUB has issues with letter-spacing: <value>.
Spaces go away VISUALLY on the Aura2 and Libra2. I have a saved search to comment-out those lines in a CSS

Inquisitive_Ram · Today, 05:06 PM

What do you mean "they go away Visually"?

Do you mean the spacinglookslikethis with no spaces?

And you have to manually change the epub after conversion to correct it?

Sirtel · Today, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Inquisitive_Ram

What do you mean "they go away Visually"?

Do you mean the spacinglookslikethis with no spaces?

And you have to manually change the epub after conversion to correct it?

Nope. That's word spacing. Theducks meant l e t t e r s p a c i n g, which is sometimes used in books for a variety of reasons, most of them unnecessary.

DNSB · Today, 10:03 PM

If you mean azw3/KF8, I would suggest trying the KindleUnpack plugin instead of calibre's built in coversion to extract an ePub from an azw3 since the structure and CSS will be much closer to the azw3's structure (and much like the structure of the ePub used as input to Kindle Publishing). If you mean azw (mobi with DRM), then calibre' conversion is pretty much the only game in town.

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Inquisitive_Ram Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2020 Location: London, UK Device: Kindle Paperwhite 10	Quality of azw to epub conversion Out of interest, when people convert from azw to epub and then view on a kobo, is the quality of the resultant ebook as good in terms of formatting as the azw is on the Kindle?

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Today, 02:27 PM	#3
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,143 Karma: 57532198 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	I do it all the time for AZW3 (DRM gone) AZW can include other format types internally that might not fare as well. One thing I found is KEPUB has issues with letter-spacing: <value>. Spaces go away VISUALLY on the Aura2 and Libra2. I have a saved search to comment-out those lines in a CSS

Today, 05:06 PM	#4
Inquisitive_Ram Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2020 Location: London, UK Device: Kindle Paperwhite 10	What do you mean "they go away Visually"? Do you mean the spacinglookslikethis with no spaces? And you have to manually change the epub after conversion to correct it?

Today, 10:03 PM	#6
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 38,075 Karma: 152037714 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	If you mean azw3/KF8, I would suggest trying the KindleUnpack plugin instead of calibre's built in coversion to extract an ePub from an azw3 since the structure and CSS will be much closer to the azw3's structure (and much like the structure of the ePub used as input to Kindle Publishing). If you mean azw (mobi with DRM), then calibre' conversion is pretty much the only game in town.

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