Amazon Kindle and IPad EPUB Fix

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Amazon Kindle and IPad EPUB Fix

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Now that Amazon supports sending ePub files to Kindle ereaders and Kindle apps by email, some people are reporting errors with the formatting after Amazon converts the ePub to Kindle format.

Apparently this happens because the Kindle conversion services defaults to ISO-8859-1 when character encoding isn’t specified in the file. Technically ePubs should be set to UTF-8.

Here is a handy tool that tries to fix these problems....

https://kindle-epub-fix.netlify.app/
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Re: Amazon Kindle EPUB Fix

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Thank you Addicted. :)
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Thank you, A2R! I convert it to mobi when the epub is not working.
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I encountered epub books that are not uploading to kindle. Mobi is not accepted anymore. Do you have any other workaround?
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oel_3 wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:36 am I encountered epub books that are not uploading to kindle. Mobi is not accepted anymore. Do you have any other workaround?
I've asked around and most said that they convert it to AZW3 and then it uploads. Waiting for an answer from a freind
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Thanks, A2R!

I tried azw3, it is not accepted too, both send to kindle and email
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