So far the ePubs I’ve sent to my Kindles haven’t had any issues like this. This shouldn’t be a very common problem since most ePubs specify the proper encoding, but it’s something you may come across occasionally. Of course you could just use Calibre to convert the ePub to a Kindle format as well, but if you want the book to get added to your Kindle account for syncing and backup you’ll have to use Amazon’s Personal Documents service.

I've currently tested it only on Windows but it should also work on macOS and Linux. It is based on Kindle Comic Converter and can convert. I haven’t tested this myself since I don’t use Calibre anymore, but that’s what’s being reported over on reddit and Mobileread so I thought I would share the fix here since some people are encountering the same encoding issue trying to send ePubs to Kindles. Edit the books in your collection Convert any ebook format to another Cross-platform Download Calibre For Linux. I created a plugin for calibre which converts your comic files into an optimized Kindle format. You can do so with the “Encode HTML in UTF-8” option using the Modify ePub plugin for Calibre. In the meantime, the solution is to set the encoding type manually for ePubs that don’t contain this information. Hopefully at some point Amazon will make it so ePubs default to the proper encoding regardless if the file specifies it or not, but it’s hard telling if that’ll ever happen or not. Technically ePubs should be set to UTF-8. India speaks reddit feed by Vishwas Vasuki. Apparently this happens because the Kindle conversion services defaults to ISO-8859-1 when character encoding isn’t specified in the file. Amazon metadata download: Add an option to prefer the Kindle edition when multiple book types are returned by.

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