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Old 08-30-2011, 06:53 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
It has been fairly well reverse engineered and this is documented in our wiki under MOBI however, Amazon can and does mess with the format but surprisingly it is only a short period of time before the Calibre folks have reverse engineered the changes. Amazon can't drastically change anything since there are thousands of books out there in this format and they can't break them so the format changes can only be additions and compatible new features. So you worries are not too realistic. The format in some form has been around for a decade.
Fair enough. I admitted in my post that it was a pretty alarmist stance in the first place.

My point was simply that there's some people who aren't comfortable submitting calibre generated MOBI's to Amazon (regardless of how nice they may look). Call it paranoid, call it what you will. I love calibre and use it extensively, but if I'm going to ask someone to spend their hard-earned dollars to buy my product from Amazon to read on their Kindle, it's going to be built by Amazon approved publishing programs.

That's just a personal thing, but I'm sure there are others who feel the same way.
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