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Old 05-04-2014, 08:22 PM   #156
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While Kobo does support Mobi I would caution against relying on it. Remember that the Mobi standard is not open source and that 3rd party implementations of it are based on their understanding of the format, which might not jive with the true standard.
Mobipocket documented their format back before Amazon acquired them. The MobileRead wiki has a copy of it here: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/MOBI

Amazon has made some recent changes to better support stuff possible in ePub, like embedded video that I don't believe are documented. Thus far, I haven't encountered a Mobi file I couldn't read with a third party viewer app.

ePub is documented, but it's an evolving standard, and I don't believe anyone currently supports all of it. The current ePub specs are here: http://idpf.org/epub/30

(The ePub specs specify that a viewer should degrade gracefully, and simply ignore the stuff in an ePub file it can't handle instead of dying horribly.)
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