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Originally Posted by bspline
Does anyone care to guesstimate *if* and *when* Kindle 2 will get an upgrade? Judging from K1 -> K2 upgrades is it likely to happen?
Also I heard Amazon released a kindle simulator that is one step forward in a path to ePub, is it true?
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As far as K2 updates are concerned, only Amazon knows. I own both K2 and K3, and while I'd theoretically like to see some of the K3 features ported to K2, if it meant that new features for K3 would be delayed or deferred, I would probably not be in favor of it.
Still, it seems they may need to update DX/DXG if they have no hardware replacement in the works (to add PDF features, Voice Guide). And at that point it might not be much of an incremental cost to upgrade K2 as well.
The rumor about ePub is wacky. It concerns the kindlegen tool that is used to build ebooks for Kindle platform. One of the things it can do is to convert ePub files to mobi format. The claim is that the ePub source files are getting packed into the mobi file.
But I don't see any evidence of this myself when I run the tools, and the source of the rumor doesn't present any, either.
Of course, ePub and mobi are very similar, and most ePub source files can be used nearly unchanged when creating the equivalent mobi format (mobi's CSS is more limited, and it doesn't support SVG graphics..). It is certainly
not the case that the entire ePub file is stored inside the mobi file. It would nearly double the size of the mobi file, and that is not happening.
Likewise the Kindle Previewer app can be used to initiate conversion to mobi, and used to view the resultant mobi file. But this is all in the name of making conversion to mobi more convenient, not for supporting ePub viewing on Kindle.