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Has anyone had any success sending epub with send to kindle via email? So far since the announcement of them dropping support, I've tried but every time I get a

Has anyone had any success sending epub with send to kindle via email? So far since the announcement of them dropping support, I've tried but every time I get a message saying the epub I sent is not in the correct format.

vzaliva 4y ago
I tried 2 days ago and it worked.
longnguyen 4y ago
I build a tool to send articles and newsletters to Kindle[0]. I’ve been sending EPUB for a few months and it’s tricky. Amazon still use the old Kindlegen software and to check if your epub has issues, you need to download their Kindlepreview app and open your epub. [0]: https://ktool.io https://ktool.io
colomon 4y ago
It's worked about 90% of the time for me. Basically everything I've sent to kindle the last two months I've sent as EPUB, and most of it worked. A lot of them were the "Compatible EPUB" version from Standard EBooks. (Even though it says they're not for Kindle, that appears to be out-of-date.) So I just tried Man and Superman this way -- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-bernard-shaw/man-and-superman https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-bernard-shaw/man-an... -- and it worked just fine. I guess I don't know if the formatting is completely correct, but I haven't had any difficulty reading books loaded this way -- pretty sure they look significantly better than the Project Gutenberg equivalents.
- acabal 4y ago
  AFAIK when you use "send to Kindle", Amazon takes your epub and runs it through Kindlegen (or whatever Amazon's current equivalent is) to create an azw3 on their end. They are not rendering the raw epub - it goes through a black-box conversion before you see it. Thus, all bets are off as to how the "epub" will look on your Kindle. (Indeed, Calibre does a better job converting to azw3 than Kindlegen! That's why we use Calibre when creating azw3 files at Standard Ebooks.) I won't believe Kindle supports epub until I can transfer an epub via USB cable and have it available to for immediate reading. Anything else is Amazon "supporting" epub with very big air quotes.
  - colomon 4y ago
    "We wanted to let you know that starting August 2022, you’ll no longer be able to send MOBI (.mobi, .azw) files to your Kindle library." That said, that was August 2nd and sending that file as MOBI did work. (And the success e-mail message they sent me today said they did convert the Man and Superman EPUB to "Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy.azw3".)

vzaliva 4y ago

I tried 2 days ago and it worked.

longnguyen 4y ago

I build a tool to send articles and newsletters to Kindle[0]. I’ve been sending EPUB for a few months and it’s tricky. Amazon still use the old Kindlegen software and to check if your epub has issues, you need to download their Kindlepreview app and open your epub. [0]: https://ktool.io https://ktool.io

colomon 4y ago

It's worked about 90% of the time for me. Basically everything I've sent to kindle the last two months I've sent as EPUB, and most of it worked. A lot of them were the "Compatible EPUB" version from Standard EBooks. (Even though it says they're not for Kindle, that appears to be out-of-date.) So I just tried Man and Superman this way -- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-bernard-shaw/man-and-superman https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-bernard-shaw/man-an... -- and it worked just fine. I guess I don't know if the formatting is completely correct, but I haven't had any difficulty reading books loaded this way -- pretty sure they look significantly better than the Project Gutenberg equivalents.

acabal 4y ago
AFAIK when you use "send to Kindle", Amazon takes your epub and runs it through Kindlegen (or whatever Amazon's current equivalent is) to create an azw3 on their end. They are not rendering the raw epub - it goes through a black-box conversion before you see it. Thus, all bets are off as to how the "epub" will look on your Kindle. (Indeed, Calibre does a better job converting to azw3 than Kindlegen! That's why we use Calibre when creating azw3 files at Standard Ebooks.) I won't believe Kindle supports epub until I can transfer an epub via USB cable and have it available to for immediate reading. Anything else is Amazon "supporting" epub with very big air quotes.
- colomon 4y ago
  "We wanted to let you know that starting August 2022, you’ll no longer be able to send MOBI (.mobi, .azw) files to your Kindle library." That said, that was August 2nd and sending that file as MOBI did work. (And the success e-mail message they sent me today said they did convert the Man and Superman EPUB to "Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy.azw3".)