I can drag an epub from iBooks to Finder to get an epub readable by Calibre.
Don’t know if this works for all epubs I have in iBooks (which I don’t think is
very many). Suggest you try that and see what iBooks is doing to the underlying.
Tom
> On Apr 15, 2017, at 2:29 PM, @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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