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Amazon issues warning about major change for Kindle users starting next month (goodereader.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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In a recent communication, Amazon has alerted Kindle users about significant changes set to take effect from next month. The notification pertains to the phasing out of support for sending MOBI (.mobi, .azw, .prc) files through the “Send to Kindle” feature, starting November 1, 2023. This change, as News18 pointed out, specifically impacts users attempting to send MOBI files via email and Kindle apps on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lacking support for the latest Kindle features

What kind of support are they "lacking"? They do contain the text and basic formatting. What else would they need in a book?

I'd guess that those "lacking" features have something to do with user tracking or DRM.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Epub doesn't natively have user tracking and DRM either. Mobi files are just ancient and there are better alternatives for them. Like bmp files vs jpg.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Epub is actually pretty good. And it's been supported for a long time now. Hard agree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Epub is also a super easy format to script with, allowing easy parsing of webpages to ebooks.