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Re:Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (2015) by JackCh on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:36AM (#17179494)
Calibre is very good at converting epubs to mobi (and the other way around.) It ships with a commandline tool called `ebook-convert` too so you don't have to mess around in the GUI.

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....

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Re:Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (2015) by thelastidiot on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:42AM (#17179544)
If you can pass the clunky interface and cryptic error message from that badly designed app.
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Re:Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (2015) by JackCh on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @11:12AM (#17179853)
Yes the UX design is very poor, but the core conversion functionality works well once you figure out how the awful GUI works. The `ebook-convert` commandline tool is just fantastic though. It has a very straight forward interface.

    ebook-convert input_file output_file [options]
And there isn't very much impedance mismatch between mobi and epub, so the conversion back and forth between the two will almost always be high quality.
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