[epstewart]

Help! I accidentally obtained a Topaz e-book and, via Amazon Kindle for Mac, downloaded it. I also downloaded it to Kindle for the iPhone. I would like to convert it to an EPUB for iBooks on the iPhone. As I read through the posts in this thread, I find myself getting very confused. Exactly how do I do what I want to do?

I do know how to use the skindle app to unlock the downloaded file (using Parallels emulator software which lets me run Windows on my Mac). The result can be either a compressed .tpz file or an uncompressed one — but neither of those works with calibre! Does unlocking the original file with skindle get me any closer to the result I'm after?

Some of the Python scripts mentioned here seem to assume one has a physical Kindle, for which one needs to specify the PID (whatever that is). How do I go about doing things if all I have are a Mac and an iPhone, with no PID?

I get the feeling I have to convert the downloaded .tpz file to the SVG format. I have no idea what SVG means, though, or why I can't convert the .tpz file directly to an EPUB. I'd like to find out the answers to both those questions.

I also think I understand that the SVG file then has to be converted to HTML, which can at last be input to calibre and converted to EPUB format. Am I right about that? Again, why not just convert the .tpz file directly to (if not EPUB) HTML?

Any help anyone can give me will be much appreciated ...