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If, like me, Amazon dropping support for the MOBI for at was news to you then here is an article discussing the announcement: https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2022/05/03/amazon-dropping...
This is just a transfer feature, the deprecation is older as I was already unable to source the official CLI converter a few years ago.
Amazon chose MOBL because it was compatible with the PRC format the old Palm Pilots used. The Palm Pilot was the original eBook reader.
Amazon chose MOBL because it was compatible with the PRC format the old Palm Pilots used. The Palm Pilot was the original eBook reader.
I'm extremely confused about this. I have an older Kindle Paperwhite (PW 3/ 7th gen I think?) and when I used the 'email sent' feature I got that mail about dropping mobi support in favor of epub, but when sending an actual epub I got an error for sending a wrong file, ostensibly because the Kindle only supports mobi. Are they going to ship a software update? Would be a shame if that service doesn't work any more in…
Amazon chose MOBL because it was compatible with the PRC format the old Palm Pilots used. The Palm Pilot was the original eBook reader.
Simpler times.
Also send-to-kindle today rejected a mobi I sent by email with: >>> Send to Kindle supports the following document formats: Adobe PDF (.pdf) Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) Rich Text Format (.rtf) HTML (.htm, .html) Text (.txt) documents Archived documents (zip , x-zip) and compressed archived documents MOBI (.azw, .mobi) (will not support the most up-to-date Kindle features for documents) JPEG (.jpg), GIF (.gif), Bitma…
I thought the response was a bad thing, but if it just means we’re finally accepting epub as a common default that’s pretty great, right?
And for the umpteenth time, the pdf format is size agnostic.
I very consciously did not buy a Kindle when choosing an Ereader about a year ago. The Kobo H2O is incredible and has served me very well. The format support is wonderful, and the stock OS does more than I need (though there is a whole community of custom OSes that also look cool). Combined with Calibre, I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is.
Easy purchasing of ebooks from Amazon, combined with their large selection of ebooks.
I very consciously did not buy a Kindle when choosing an Ereader about a year ago. The Kobo H2O is incredible and has served me very well. The format support is wonderful, and the stock OS does more than I need (though there is a whole community of custom OSes that also look cool). Combined with Calibre, I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is.
The older kindles with 2G/3G "Whispersync" functionality had another major drawcard of working just about anywhere, even if you didn't have wifi coverage or a phone with data services. I have in the past used this to load several more books while in an airport in a foreign country between flights.
Many people if you hand them a Kindle can easily navigate the store and buy a book.
Without that built-in store, then they're now going to have a bunch more hurdles: they need a computer, internet access (or an offline store), the skill and ability to run and use Calibre, the knowledge of where to get eBooks from, how to get them in the right format (or convert them), etc.