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Originally Posted by Peter21
Thanks guys
I have downloaded kindlegen and using it in terminal, turned my epub into a .mobi file, which reads fine on my kindle fire. But no sign of an AZW or KF8 file........
also...what is ADE?
Peter
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.azw is an alternative file extension for .mobi, the MOBI format, used exclusively by Amazon's servers, indicating it came from Amazon and also that it may or may not be encrypted with Amazon's DRM scheme (depending on the publisher's choice).
KF8 format will always use a file extension of .azw3, whether it came from Amazon or not.
The .mobi
produced by kindlegen, as they said, is a joint MOBI file -- it contains both the .azw and the .azw3, and can thus be read by any program that supports either. (Other .mobi's are NOT joint files, they only have the MOBI portion.) It will use the KF8 and if the reader doesn't support KF8 it will fall back to the MOBI; when uploaded, Amazon takes care of splitting the file and sending the right portion to Kindles from the cloud, depending on what the Kindle supports.