Thanks so much Lee, I had looked at Calibre, but unless I can get a backup from someone such as yourself I am uneasy trusting a firm I know nothing about.
I’ll give it a try, I have maybe 20 books I need to convert, I haven’t bought an Amazon book since iBooks became available due to the way I use the saving of important info. with iBooks. John > On Feb 10, 2017, at 11:24 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2017, at 11:23 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I mentioned that I found a program to convert PDF to various formats, ePub >> being what I need. >> >> Prior to getting iBooks I had purchased several book from Amazon for their >> Kindle software for the Mac. Not a bad piece of software, and I picked up a >> Kindle in a store one day and the hardware works exactly as the software…at >> least at that time. The books can be highlighted BUT the important >> information cannot be saved by either saving just the highlights, or >> emailing them as does iBooks. >> >> Now I want to convert the Kindle to ePub, the software I just purchased does >> not work with the Kindle format. >> >> Anyone know of a reputable software that will do this? > > I use Calibre to store my ebooks. It can convert between MOBI (Amazon) and > EPUB (almost everyone else) formats. The gotcha in converting to EPUB from > MOBI is many of the Amazon ebooks have DRM. There is a plugin for Calibre > called deDRM that works pretty well to remove it. > > For many of my uses, neither format is very useful. > > The MOBI format doesn’t natively handle mathematical formulae at all, so few > of the math/physics/engineering tomes are in that format. > > The EPUB format is really just HTML5, so it can theoretically do technical > stuff with MathML, but none of the ebook readers can handle any but the > simplest MathML constructs. > > So, most of the technical stuff is still using PDF. > > Calibre can handle all three formats in a personal library. > > L^2 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
