Amazon, as much is ever, needs to do ePub. Amazon can compete very well, thank you, in a number of areas ranging from price to selection, and the last thing we need is for the company to keep inflicting more complexities on users. If Amazon wants to add formatting capabilities for typical e-books, then it should work within the International Digital Publishing Forum. But not for everyone. I love Calibre, but must one really have to use it to keep up fully with the latest format changes at Amazon? Oh, the fun of the Tower of eBabel! High time for Amazon to abandon its proprietary formats (and really really lean on publishers to drop encryption-based DRM or at least it with the more benign social DRM). It does not convert from KFX to other formats.” ”This plugin only converts from other e-book formats to KFX. It is unknown whether or not the Previewer will function under Linux/Wine. Compatibility with Mac OS has not been tested. View the conversion job log after an error occurs to see the messages produced by the Previewer during conversion.”Īnd still more: “This plugin has only been tested on the Windows platform. The error messages produced are cryptic, but better than nothing. If a conversion error occurs the plugin attempts to capture the most relevant error message from temporary log files produced by the Previewer. Getting a book to convert successfully may require trial and error editing of the source format. “Unfortunately, the Amazon Kindle Previewer often fails to convert books and provides no guidance on how to correct the problem when this occurs. Alas, the plugin isn’t for the faint-hearted: Please drop by the MobileRead posting from jhowell for more information, including relevant links and caveats. ”Because the first step in conversion is to produce an EPUB and since the Kindle Previewer has no configuration options, the Conversion Output Options tab for KFX output is the same as for EPUB output.” Repackage the KDF data into a KFX container.Use the Amazon Kindle Previewer to convert from EPUB to KDF.Convert from the original e-book format to EPUB.It performs the following steps during conversion: “The plugin is activated by selecting KFX as the output format when converting books in calibre. Now, even if a book didn’t come from the Amazon store, you can enjoy the above features thanks to a new KFX Conversion Output plug-in for Calibre. Want to be able to read sideloaded books in the fancy KFX format with your recent-model Kindle?Ĭraving for dropped caps, hyphenation, better kerning?
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