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Calibre is your friend when you get a Kindle. I've converted a hundred epub books by now.

Rarely ever had a problem with that, it's just one additional step with emailing your kindle address with the book.

It really depends on what you're content is. Technical books with equations turn into garbage when I convert, and the formatting is all off. It's just easier to do PDF for me.

Have you tried the KindleUnpack plugin? [0] I originally used Calibre's built-in "convert" option, but I found I've gotten much better results from KindleUnpack. It gives a much "cleaner" EPUB with less of the annoying Calibre watermarking in the CSS and such.

[0] https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/KindleUnpack

Just rename your .epub to .png and they can be emailed as is to your Kindle. Yes, it's insane and mostly works.

What?! Why does that work?

To add, I used to keep my kindle not attached to an amazon account (so no email), but I plugged it into USB like a flash drive and synced books with Calibre.

Worked for me really well, it's great at bulk conversions. and I used to charge it on my desk anyways, so it wasn't much of a hassle to remember to sync.

There's also the excellent ebook-convert command line tool as part of Calibre which can be used to convert between the formats[1], I use it convert HN content to Kindle e-book for my https://hntokindle.com.

[1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....

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