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Originally Posted by idoit
Well, that's good to know. I am assuming by dual-MOBI you mean an AZW3 file with .mobi as its extension, eh?
@Josieb1: That's not too bad actually, but yeah I feel you.
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An AZW3 with a *.mobi extension is still an AZW3, the same way a DOCX with the *.monkey extension is still a DOCX.
However, the application handling it may or may not know how to recognize the file if it lies about itself (though unix will rely on magic numbers instead of or in addition to file extensions).
As for Amazon Kindles and dual-MOBI, a dual-MOBI is exactly what it sounds like it should be -- a file that contains both mobi7 and KF8 sections.
Used to display KF8 on newer devices, but still be readable on ancient devices that don't support AZW3, since they can read the mobi7 section of the file.
They have the *.mobi extension though, true enough.
That's how the old devices realize it's a mobi7 file.
