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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Just because Mobi is sold outside of Amazon does not mean it's not obsolete. Mobi is obsolete. It's so obsolete that given a choice of Mobi or something better, Mobi will always lose out.
Lots of obsolete things are still being sold. That doesn't make them any less obsolete.
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I am sorry to repeat myself but....
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Not sure I understand you. Mobi still works, is still used and supported on a wide variety of devices, and is still a preferred format of some.
It is like saying text files, html files, Microsoft word files, many others are obsolete because they do no your personal preferences or standards.
Mobi is actually quite useful sometimes in that converting to mobi and back will often filter out a lot of bad formatting commands.
But basically because it is still fairly widely used it is by definition not obsolete
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Mobi is very simplistic in that it strips a lot of the user/publisher supplied crap away and weird numbers for font sizes etc. are removed. With a really messy file it often gives you a cleaner place to start, which a few of us like.
Of course KF8 may do the same thing?
It will probably become obsolete in 10 years or more, when the readers that support it well start to die, and/or fancy formatting of the book becomes a primary consideration for most.
I'm probably a minority, but I like all of my books formatted the same. Same font, same justification, same spacing etc. Drop caps, florid letters etc. are fine, but give me consistency every time.
Not that I have any objection to you preferring the fancy formatting.
Helen