But AZW3 books will have AZW3 as their original format, if you added it from the device.
E-Ink devices download MOBI as AZW and AZW3 as AZW3.
Kindle for PC if I remember correctly downloads both as AZW.
DRM Check: Find out what DRM that ebook has got.
Command-line python script to check books for DRM, requires some scripting on Windows/Linux to check many files at once, there is an AppleScript already attached to do so on OSX.