I have several ePub books. How can I convert them to docx so they can become personal books in LOGOS?
Try a program like calibre.
calibre
I have read the website of Calibre. It appears to be amazing - hard to believe it is freeware.
To those who use it, do you keep all your books in Calibre or do you convert them to Personal Books in LOGOS? If you do both, what's your criteria for each?
thanks.
I dont convert very often due to licence/copyright restrictions on the source epubs (but what you do is between you, God, your local laws, and your conscience)
but when I do I export from calibre as utf-8 text, and then open that file with Word 2007, not saying its the best way, but it works for me
To those who use it, do you keep all your books in Calibre or do you convert them to Personal Books in LOGOS?
Welcome [:D]
For me, Calibre is a seldom used conversion tool for ePub's that can become a Personal Book in Logos (with a clear conscience).
Note: tried 4 public domain ePub's, which have lots of conversion issues (essentially unusable).
Keep Smiling [:)]
when I do I export from calibre as utf-8 text, and then open that file with Word 2007, not saying its the best way, but it works for me
I export from Calibre as RTF, someone else (Mitchell?) said in another thread he exports as HTML.
Thanks much for the insight to legal aspects. I was unaware there were copyright restrictions on eBooks that we owned. I guess Calibre is as good a place to store them as is Logos.
Just my honest opinion. Those who disagree or whose consciences bother them should certainly not do so.
However, you have no right to distribute or share such a reformatted ebook. That would clearly violate copyright law, even if you gave it away.
However, I am no lawyer and this is a personal opinion, not a qualified legal opinion.
http://www.ebook-site.com/ebook-copyrights.html
Princeton Seminary has a digital library of books in the public domain. Some of them can be exported to a Kindle. (They have been scanned using OCR, so they have a significant number of errors, some more than others.) From my Kindle I add them to Calibre, then use Calibre to convert them to RTF. Then I open the RTF in MS Word and convert to docx format. Some books require a lot of editing to make usable personal books in Logos, so it's not worth my time. This process gives me an appreciation for what Logos does in producing books.
This process gives me an appreciation for what Logos does in producing books.
While editing => American Standard Version 1901 - Personal Bible without Chapter and Verse #'s likewise gained an immense appreciation of Logos Bible tagging.
Went to the website, subscribed and read their material. I find nothing that would suggest it is a violation of copyright law to modify an ebook to another format as long as it is for personal use.
The issue is fairly complicated, and laws vary from country to country. The issue is generally not converting an ebook to another format… it is breaking the copy protection in order to do so. You will have to use your own judgment over the issue.
