Thread: do Kobos support mobi as well as epub?
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Old 10-12-2014, 10:46 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by phunnylinguist View Post
Thanks for the mini history on the mobi format, DNSB. Especially enlightening but certainly believable is the fact that Amazon just gobbled up (purchased) the format to tweak it as they wish for proprietary marketing reasons. In that they are certianly not alone.

I've a number of purchased pubs which offer the choice of epub and/or mobi. Being a current Nook HD owner up to now it's been a moot point. The publisher still offers the titles in this way as 'mobi' rather than 'azw' which from your response would be no mean feat to convert to epub using Calibre.
"AZW" is just a file extension: it's still a "Mobi" file, and can be converted to ePub using Calibre. I buy most of my ebooks from Amazon, and convert them to ePub.
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