Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format

Post by Markoff » Thu, Aug 11, 2022, 7:35 AM UTC

Rufhfhs3747rhe7 wrote: post #93

~8" foldable phones have eliminated the need for a separate eReader in my opinion. OLED screens are comfortable enough to read on and open source apps on Android can open any format and integrate with any dictionary. And most importantly, it's already always with me.

Post by Markoff » Thu, Aug 11, 2022, 7:37 AM UTC

lvass wrote: post #23

twerh34fasdfa wrote: post #21

On a side-note: I'm surprised devices like Kindle survive where superior ones like those from Sony perish simply because of the software walled garden. Not a good outlook for humanity.

What walled garden are you talking about? I never even connected my ~8 year old kindle to the internet, only send files that I own via USB.

Post by DharmaPolice » Thu, Aug 11, 2022, 7:39 AM UTC

michaelmrose wrote: post #95

nucleardog wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah like, I don't wanna point out the typical HN problem but... Imagine explaining this to someone's grandma. "Click this Amazon shortcut, type your book name up here, click on it down below, press 'buy now'. If it doesn't show up right away, wait 5 minutes and check again." Versus... something to do with trying to download mobi files (from where?), starting calibre, starting an import process, locating said files (…

99% of this difficulty goes away if Grandma uses her phone or tablets browser to download unlimited free books from zlibrary and reads them on the same device. Honestly the grandma example is starting to feel dated. When I was born in 1980 a 50 year old grandma was born in 1930 and probably didn't own a TV until they were raising their own family. The same 50 year old today was born in 1972 and would have been 5 when…

Post by AndyJames » Thu, Aug 11, 2022, 7:40 AM UTC

lizzard wrote: post #49

Barrin92 wrote: post #18

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…

I had this happen as well and ran the epub through Calibre, converting epub to epub. That actually fixed it and the Kindle accepted the new file.

Post by mikolaj1024 » Thu, Aug 11, 2022, 7:46 AM UTC

omnimus wrote: post #94

Thorentis wrote: post #25

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.

I can recommend PocketBook i recently got some cheaper Touch HD model. It simply does the job. It runs linux, it has several book sync options natively and you can instal KOreader on it easy.