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Re:Kindle is OK by mhd on Thursday July 29, 2010 @10:41AM (#1557698)
Most books are pretty easy to convert. As mentioned elsewhere, calibre does a good job at it, although the GUI looks like it crept out of someones mid-90s Tcl/Tk nightmares.

A problem I've seen with epub books is missing hyphenation, which really messes up the display. And this was on "native" devices (Sony PRS, nook). Haven't seen really good typography on any of the ereader devices. This includes the iPad…

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Re:Kindle is OK by quadhome on Thursday July 29, 2010 @12:46PM (#1558160)
calibre also comes with an "ebook-convert" CLI program.

It works as advertised.

    $ ebook-convert book.epub book.mobi
    ...
    $ cp book.mobi /media/Kindle/documents/
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