I can only find mentions about Amazon's "Send to Kindle" feature doing internal .epub to AZW coversion and I really don't consider that as proper support for the format.
Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
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Re: Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
#222I 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 kindle's value prop is that it has existed for a while and I'm pretty sure my 8y old model would still work if I hadn't left it on a plane. So I bought a used one from a friend and that's been working for many years. I see no reason to upgrade e-readers all the time. I'm not telling you or anyone to buy a Kindle, but from a VERY quick look my Kindle cost half of what a Kobo costs (tolino seems to be available aro…
Are you German? Tolino eReaders are basically just rebadged Kobos at this point with a different software stack for a few European countries.
I can get a Kobo Nia for $130 CAD (about €100), a base model Kindle is $120 CAD. They are very close in price and on the high end the Kobo is cheaper and offers more.
Re: Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
#223This is great news! MOBI and especially KF8 (Amazon flavour of XHTML on MOBI) are horribly complex by virtue of them being additional layers over the PalmDB format, which on it's own is actually quite elegant. I've spent quite some time on building a fully featured MOBI library[1]. A bit sad that my work will become obsolete this quickly, but definitely good in the long run. [1]: https://github.com/leotaku/mobi
I was just looking for a replacement library for go to build documents for the Kindle. I have a little service that converts RSS feeds articles into content for ebook readers and currently for them I was converting to mobi. It's great to see that there's an "easy" way to switch to AZW.
Re: Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
#224I 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.
Kindle unlimited - great for pulpy sci-fi books. Some people hate it, but I enjoy it and it's a killer feature for me.
Agreed, "SHTF"/"EOTWAWKI" types too. Any good recent sci-fi recommendations? After spending 23 days without running water in July due to multiple well failures, I've lost interested in SHTF/EOTWAWKI and need to get back into sci-fi titles that I'm not listening to via Audible for the performers (Omega Force, Expeditionary Force, Undying Mercenaries, Bobiverse, etc).
Re: Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
#225I 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 have a couple of thousand books on my ageing Kindle. Looking for a new ereader, will check out Kobo. Do you buy books from Kindle and convert them to ePub?
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Re: Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
#226Is this just trying to frustrate people pirating e-books and e-mailing themselves them via AWS servers?
As has been said lots of books are already out there as epub, there are many that are already in Amazon's file format too. I'd guess that most people torrenting books are using calibre anyway.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazon gave me a Kindle Oasis (the prize for being a finalist in last year's 'Amazon Storytelling' contest). I would never have bought it myself since it costs €249 (!) but I have to say it's a fantastic device. It's super-legible, has enormous memory, is water resistant, and has buttons for page-turning. Other than Kindle books that arrive directly after buying, I send books to it via email through Calibre, which re…
>I would never have bought it myself since it costs €249 (!) I bought my Oasis 2 around for closet to 299 EUR (309.97 USD) when I was making 30k USD a year, was 100% worth it to me while I still had a fully functional kindle keyboard and kindle paperwhite 3. If you're a casual reader, that might seem expensive, but if you are chewing through 1-3 books a week like I do (heck I read 3 books last time I flew from Indian…
Actually I had bought a Kindle Keyboard 3G in 2011, which at the time cost $189, so not that far from the cost of a Kindle Oasis today. It served me well for many years.
While it's still working (and the keyboard is so nice to use to type in notes) the plastic case has become "sticky" and a kind of thick film comes off in places. It's strange and very unpleasant.
Recently the battery died, I refurbished it with a new battery from Aliexpress and it came back to life. When the Oasis arrived I gave the 3G to my kids.
Re: Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
#228I 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 kindle oasis is one of the nicest pieces of hardware I've ever used
Re: Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
good luck transferring files if you forget cable, see my other lengthy post here
How often are you recycling books on these devices?
Re: Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
While not exactly like Pocket, there are services that can send web articles to your Kindle. I work on one called Push to Kindle: https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/
that's a good idea, you should try to implement some sort of extension to make it easier
Thanks. We already have extensions for most popular browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. Links at the URL above. As well as an Android and iOS app.
Chrome extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/push-to-kindle/pna...