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Originally Posted by DSpider
KF8 is a different story. From what I read, KF8 is basically an ePub 3 in a wrapper. So then why don't they just simply support the "vanilla" ePub 3 then? Why convert it?
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Because Amazon give you a Kindle at cost in the expectation that you'll buy content from their store. They don't want to give you a Kindle and have you buy books from Kobo, Sony, or B&N. That would be just plain dumb. Amazon want you to buy from them, and using a proprietary format achieves that.
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But I wasn't talking about KF8. I was talking about Mobi. Mobi (the only available format for all Kindles released before the Paperwhite) is severely limited when compared to ePub 2.1.
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All Kindles from the K3 onwards (ie the K3, original K4, current "Basic Kindle", Kindle Touch, Kindle PW) support KF8, as does the Kindle Fire, and all the Kindle Apps (PC, Mac, Android, iOS). Mobi is obsolete and irrelevant, unless you're one of the increasing small number of people who still have a K1 or K2.