Epubs have special zipping requirements see 
http://www.hxa.name/articles/content/epub-guide_hxa7241_2007.html#containerstructure
 for information on correctly zipping epubs

On 15 Apr 2017, at 14:29, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote:

> When adding an epub to iBooks, iBooks deflates the file and turns it into a 
> package. these packages (folders) do not work for Calibre or most readers, so 
> I tried zipping the directory and then renaming the resulting file to 
> "book.epub" but Calibre still seems to get hung up on it. Also, if I compare 
> the size of the zipped epub to the file of the epub before iBooks got to it, 
> it's smaller.
> 
> 
> pre-ibooks : Book.epub   2.4MB
>    iBooks : book.epub/  2.4MB
>    zipped : Book.epub   880KB
> 
> Is there something else to compressing an epos folder into an epub files that 
> I need to do?
> 
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