FB2 converters

FB2 (FictionBook 2) is an XML e-book format created in Russia around 2004. A whole book, including its pictures, is one XML file that describes structure rather than layout: sections, titles, paragraphs, poems, epigraphs and footnotes. It is common on Russian and Eastern European book sites, often packed as .fb2.zip.

Convert FB2

• FB2 → EPUBConvert FB2 to EPUB

What to know about FB2

• Pictures are stored inside the XML file as base64 text, so an FB2 is larger than the same book as EPUB.
• Older FB2 files are often encoded in Windows-1251 or KOI8-R instead of UTF-8; the XML declaration says which.
• Footnotes live in a separate body named "notes" and are linked from the text.
• Most reading apps outside Eastern Europe, and Amazon's Send to Kindle, do not open FB2.

File extensions: .fb2, .fb2.zip