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Originally Posted by teotjunk
Is Epub a much better format than mob ?. I have an ebook reader that reads only epub ? But amazon sells e-books much cheaper than elsewhere . Is there a loss of quality when converting mobi to epub ?
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Note that when Amazon sells an e-book, it exists in both formats, Mobi 7 and KF8, with the latter essentially being an epub.
If you format for KF8, then you really ought to use media calls to control how the older Kindles handle the instruction.
"Mobi" is really an outdated format. Amazon has for all practical purposes switched over to epub, though its books must be backwards compatible. Therefore there is really no way to create a mobi any longer, short of using the (outdated) Mobipocket Creator. The "mobi" that comes out of KindleGen is actually a two- or three-layered book: Mobi 7, KF8, and sometimes though apparently not always your original submission.
It is for this reason that the old mail-to Kindle.com conversion is no longer much used. It gives you a mobi file, sure, though under a different extension as I recall, but it doesn't give you any forecast of what your book will look like on a Fire or PaperWhite.