I'm a software engineer. I would like to buy a Kindle e-book (AZW3) or Barnes & Noble e-book (Epub) and use Calibre to convert it to a format that I can edit with Microsoft Word 2010 because I love the way Word does comments (i.e. annotations). My idea is to use Word to convert these e-books to PDF's that I can reference at work (my technical developer books) either on my workstation screen or my own tablet. I feel that I need to use PDF format because I don't want words to wrap on lines containing sample code (e.g. C#). The code would become very hard to read if it wrapped.
I tried downloading part of an Epub book from Barnes & Noble and opened it in Calibre and converted it to both an HTMLZ format and RTF format but was very disappointed to find out that there were formatting errors in both formats. Some lines had indentation in the HTMLZ that didn't exist in the Epub format and the RTF formatted e-book lost boxes surrounding example diagrams and the example title was on the right side of the example instead of underneath the example. Some boxes with colored backgrounds in the Epub format lost the colored background in the HTMLZ (only had a colored box line) and the RTF had no surrounding box and no colored background.
Can anyone recommend how to get an error-free conversion of either an Epub or AZW3 e-book to a format that I can edit in Word 2010? Any tips or advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I tried downloading part of an Epub book from Barnes & Noble and opened it in Calibre and converted it to both an HTMLZ format and RTF format but was very disappointed to find out that there were formatting errors in both formats. Some lines had indentation in the HTMLZ that didn't exist in the Epub format and the RTF formatted e-book lost boxes surrounding example diagrams and the example title was on the right side of the example instead of underneath the example. Some boxes with colored backgrounds in the Epub format lost the colored background in the HTMLZ (only had a colored box line) and the RTF had no surrounding box and no colored background.
Can anyone recommend how to get an error-free conversion of either an Epub or AZW3 e-book to a format that I can edit in Word 2010? Any tips or advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!