Thread: What is mobi?
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Old 10-31-2011, 08:28 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice View Post
I know that epub is a re-named collection of zipped files. is mobi also like that, or is it a file format by itself, like pdf?
Rather than being a compressed archive that functions as a container for discrete and complete files, MOBI is a binary encoded database. This makes it more of a file format itself than a container of other files.
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