Re:Amazon's Kindle will finally add ePub support
by adamomada on Monday May 02, 2022 @11:37PM
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From the Kindle ‘jailbreak’ thread yesterday, i learned it’s not the kindle being able to read ePub natively, but instead amazon doing conversion of ePub to the format kindle can read
FTA
> the Send to Kindle function will convert ePub files to a format that can be opened on the e-reader.
Re:Amazon's Kindle will finally add ePub support
by IRP on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:34AM
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Converting to their own proprietary format is not natively supporting Epub format. Also converting being more prone to errors, there will be unreadable ebooks more often than if the reader was supporting it natively.
Re:Amazon's Kindle will finally add ePub support
by angulardragon03 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @11:46AM
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Fun fact: you can already send ePubs to kindles, if you change the file extension to .png (a valid format that Amazon’s Kindle email service accepts).
This doesn’t seem to work in Apple Mail (it doesn’t treat image attachments as true file attachments seemingly and tries to add them inline into text, leading to Amazon telling you that you didn’t attach anything), but I got it to work today from Outlook.
Re:Amazon's Kindle will finally add ePub support
by synicalx on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:41AM
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Hopefully this means more reliable conversions between epub and AZW. Using various 3rd party tools for this up until now, I've nearly always ran into weird formatting issues - some very minor and some that made books almost unreadable.
FTA
> the Send to Kindle function will convert ePub files to a format that can be opened on the e-reader.
This doesn’t seem to work in Apple Mail (it doesn’t treat image attachments as true file attachments seemingly and tries to add them inline into text, leading to Amazon telling you that you didn’t attach anything), but I got it to work today from Outlook.
How so?