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Originally Posted by cfw123
I too want to have a single format for ebooks, and perhaps .mobi is that. I only will read ebooks on my Kindle, and want to avoid DSM books at all cost. I think .awz -- the Kindle format -- might be best, but .mobi appears to be the same thing, or becoming that with new revisions, and Kindle says that they read these just fine.
I want to have one file per ebook. Kindle says this is necessary. I would like all images to be stored in B&W with 600-800 size maximum. But I don't know how to do that.
So far it looks like a highly restricted .html is best, but don't know how to do the B&W conversions, as well as restricting size to 600-800.
I have a lot of ebooks, mostly in adobe formats. I have a format converter to go to a DOC file, but would prefer to go direct to html instead, as the DOC to html conversion of MS Word is terrible, and creates enormous files.
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If you want drm-free e-books on the Kindle, then MOBI is essentially your only choice. However, note that it has been designed as a display format as opposed to an archive format. In other words, when converting to MOBI you may loose some information that was in the original and might be important if you ever wanted to convert to another format. Archiving in HTML or OEB (essentially, HTML with an opf metadata file) or EPUB might be better, although there are currently no tools for EPUB to MOBI conversion. Mobipocket's own tools will convert HTML or OEB to MOBI under Windows, or you can use
Mobiperl on any desktop.
There is typically no need to convert color images to gray scale, the Kindle will do this for you. I think it will also rescale images bigger than the screen.
For PDF's Amazon's own conversion for the Kindle may be as good as it gets. The Windows MobiPocket Reader has a similar PDF to MOBI capability.