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Originally Posted by iandix
I don't believe the mobi formatted books these libraries offer will work on kindle devices, they are for mobipocket reading software... But I could be wrong here, as I'm not a kindle user. I just know one of the libraries I use have over a 1000 mobi books (all the new ones each week are epub) and it's rare to see a mobi book checked out....
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I really don't know the in's and out's of the downloadable mobi format offered by libraries. But the other day I found a few books in mobi format at my library (newer books, I think). When I went to check them out, the library needed my PID. I had gone through some software a bit ago to find/create a pid for my kindle. I had come up with two different ones that were very close - last 3 characters were different. First did not work. Second did. The book downloaded to my download folder - no special reader software. I was able to open it in Calibre. And I was able to open it on my k3 after copying it directly to the k3 from my download folder (in other words, I did not convert it in Calibre).
But as I opened - I have no idea what's what with the mobi format my library uses but it opened on my k3 fine.