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Old 12-12-2014, 07:19 AM   #56
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Originally Posted by ottdmk View Post
DuckieTigger, interestingly enough, Kobo will display DRM-free mobi, but it's not official and by most anecdotal reports it's poor.

Fortunately most sources of DRM-free e-books provide multiple formats. I do think, as a matter of principle, Kobo's mobi support should be a bit better though.
No, Kobo's support of mobi is part of the firmware and supported by Kobo. It is listed as a supported format in the specs of most of the e-ink devices. I don't know why it is missing from the others as they use the same firmware. But, it isn't something they concentrate on. And I hope they don't as I would prefer them to fix the problems with epubs.

I always recommend converting to epub. I have looked at a couple of large mobi books that had no obvious problems. But, as I hadn't done that for a while, I just tried a couple now. The issue is that there was no ToC and text selection didn't work. The books appeared to be displayed correctly, so they are readable,
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