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You seem like the kind of people that read. How do you convert to epub? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by fort_burp@feddit.nl to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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How on planet Earth can I change this pdf to epub? I tried everything I could think of in Calibre but the problem is that the pdf has 2 columns of text per page, plus footnotes on each page. When it converts to epub it just prints each line of each text column as a line of text, which makes it totally lose it's meaning. Footnotes are also just added as regular text, as part of a supremely incoherent story with aggressive punctuation.

Has anybody been able to solve this before?

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[–] Edamamebean@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Instead of doing any converting you could probably find the epub on Anna's Archive. I've never had any problems finding books on there, even pretty obscure stuff. They also seem to have everything in both epub and pdf. Good luck friend!

https://annas-archive.org/

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

Good advice, thanks! Actually I got the PDF from Anna, there was no epub available :/