Re: [MacGroup] What about converting Kindle to ePub?

[John Robinson]

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  wrote:
> 
> On Feb 9, 2017, at 11:23 PM, John Robinson  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
> 
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Re: [MacGroup] What about converting Kindle to ePub?

[Lee Larson]

On Feb 9, 2017, at 11:23 PM, John Robinson  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








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[MacGroup] What about converting Kindle to ePub?

[John Robinson]

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?

Appreciate any help.

John Robinson
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