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Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by Hitton on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:47AM (#32424850)
And if you are lucky, Amazon will even be able to convert them.

About week ago I wanted to test it, I tried it with bunch of epubs from various sources and only about half converted successfully.

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Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by GekkePrutser on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:12AM (#32425091)
Yeah I often have issues with "fancy quotes" not getting converted correctly if I email an ePub to Kindle. They get converted to HTML entities :(

With Calibre it works but it's an annoying extra step. I hope Amazon fix this issue before they officially start supporting ePub.

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Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by Turing_Machine on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:46PM (#32430055)
Try using epubcheck on those to see where the finger really should be pointed.

There are a lot of really crap "epubs" out there.

https://www.w3.org/publishing/epubcheck/

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