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Rx for Google ePub / Mobipocket conflict: Calibre

August 28, 2009 | 6:06 am

Posted in: ebook, Google, Google Book Search

By David Rothman

Ugly underlining and a yellow background show up in ePub books that you download from Google Books and convert and read with Mobipocket Desktop.

Annoys the devil out of me.

But Spider Mattheson has a workaround: just use Calibre to convert the ePub to Mobi.

Eureka! No more yellow submarines!

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Christine says:

August 28, 2009 at 11:18 am

You can also just use Mobipocket Creator and delete the offending css.

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Rx for Google ePub / Mobipocket conflict: Calibre

August 28, 2009 | 6:06 am

By David Rothman

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