I noticed that today…I have encountered one problem when I converted some books. All of the words were joined together without any spaces between them.
This could be a “formatting problem” of the original text. Which text format did you use (pdf, epub, etc.)? From my experience importing many texts into LingQ, the pdf format should work best.
If that doesn’t solve your spacing problem, your best bet is to send a copy of your text file to LingQ support (@Zoran) so that they can reproduce and fix the error.
Hi Peter,
Ich danke dir! du bist eine sehr intelligenz mann! Finally, able to convert a kindle book in a pdf file and upload it on LingQ successfully. Hardly took five minutes, just followed your above advice. Everything worked out very well in the end.
Glad I could be of help!
I’m now having troubles with the process and I am not sure if it is related to one book in particular. I’ve converted several kindle books in the last few days but the most recent one is scrambling and creating a huge PDF file…still using old kindle software and same calibre software. Updated calibre to see if that helped but I have the same result…Any ideas?
Update: I’ve bought another book from a different author and it has converted fine so my problem must be book specific. I have noticed that the problem book when added to Calibre is showing as MOBI when all others are showing as AZW3 - Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this?
Hi, Andrew!
“Mobi” is Amazon´s legacy format for Kindle (see: EPUB vs. MOBI vs. PDF: Which Book Format Should You Use?).
LingQ supports the following formats: EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT, MOBI, SRT, ASS, VTT, TTML .
So, in this case, you could import the MOBI file directly without converting it to PDF first.
If that doesn’t work, you could convert the MOBI file to EPUB by means of Calibre and then import into LingQ.
Hope that helps
Peter
Start all over again.
- Download kindle software
- Login in and download your kindle ebook from Amazon.
- Disconnect your internet
- Now go to Caliber, add the book and convert from MOBI to PDF. (no internet connection at this point).
- Connect to internet again, then upload it on LingQ and see if you still have this problem.
I just downloaded an ebook in Mobi from Amazon, successfully coverted it to pdf and then finally uploaded it at lingQ with the above mentioned steps.
I tired this with the same result. I think the problem is that its a kids book that has lots of pictures and I’m wondering if they are embedded in such a way that the file is scrambled when converted.
The MOBI file doesn’t work in lingQ. I think, as per my comment below, that the original book has lots of images and must be scrambled because of that. I’m not sure if its possible to extract the text only from the MOBI file by converting to another file? I’ve tried PDF and AZW3 then to PDF but it keeps failing
In this case, I´d try to convert the MOBI file to DocX (the newer word format) and then extract the plain text.
See the section “How to Access the Extracted Text” in this “how-to-geek” article:
A billion thank yous PeterBormann. Your instructions worked perfectly.
The most simple method to get rid of the drm is to download the books for old Kindle devices (even broken ones).
They support only mobi and sometimes azw3. So you get the books only in this format. In my case it’s the first Kindle Paperwhite. If you have such a device and it is still connected to your Amazon account you can download books for USB transfer directly from the Amazon website. You don’t need to use the old Kindle device at all. You just need such a device listed in your account so Amazon offers you the download in an old format.
You also can see the serial number of the device on the Amazon website, you’ll need that for azw3 books where you have to add the serial number into the settings of the dedrm addon.
The only downside are books that are based of big pdfs. Sometimes you can’t download them for the small eInk Kindles. In my case that is just one single book out of >100.
That method is the easiest one. For mobi you don’t have to do anything, just drag the downloaded files into Calibre (with dedrm addon installed) and you’re done. For azw3 you just have to add the device serial number once and afterwards it’s also just drag’n’drop.
Much easier than messing around with the old pc Kindle software that causes countless different problems.
I saw the USB transfer option when I was looking for a solution, but I’ve never owned a Kindle. It definitely seemed like the easiest option for anyone who has an old one kicking around though.
Unfortunately it was the same problem with the DocX. The result was a long scrambled DocX file. I also cant change the DocX to Zip as suggested in the howtogeek article. The .DocX doesnt appear on my file its built into the properties and I cant access that
Hi, Andrew!
Sorry to hear that you´ve so many problems with this MOBI file!
Seems like a tough nut to crack.
However, your “file extensions” problem (“.docx / .zip”) is easy to solve:
Hope that helps
Peter
It worked fine, thanks a lot for the detailed guide! Kindle app updated itself despite de-selecting the auto-update option, but I was able to uninstall the updated version and finish the task by installing the old version instead again.
Peter,
thank you very much fot these detailed instructions! Finally I was able to start reading my content (books) on LingQ.