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0 pointsdoc_gunthrop5y ago0 comments

Apparently you can do the conversion with Calibre.[1]

1: https://epubor.com/how-to-convert-kindle-kfx-to-epubpdfmobi-...

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Tijdreiziger5y ago· 2 in thread

Last I checked (a year ago?) KFX wasn't a great input format, as it's optimized for the Kindle readers and not for conversion/interoperability. That is, KFX is to AZW3 as PDF is to HTML.

doc_gunthropOP5y ago

Sure, but if the book you're looking for is only available on Kindle and your eReader is not a Kindle, then the conversion is better than nothing.

I've found some O'Reilly ebooks only available on amazon in the format "Kindle Edition" (ie. KFX). Pretty aggressive market strategy from amazon given EPUB3 is the technical standard, but there you have it.

Tijdreiziger5y ago

On my Amazon account, I can download my purchased books as AZW3 from the following page: https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/myx ('Manage Your Content and Devices'). (As I understand it, AZW3 is mostly the same thing as EPUB3.)

(Either that, or the files I download from there aren't actually AZW3 files but just KFX files with an .azw3 extension.)

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