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Old 04-26-2016, 07:41 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
2) AZW3 is also known as "new mobi" because MOBI is mobipocket format 7 and AZW3 is mobipocket format 8. AZW3 is just a new and improved MOBI with proper support for CSS, cover images, embedded fonts... internally it is much closer to EPUB. (mobi7 predated EPUB.)
In other words the only reason to use MOBI is for ancient, legacy devices that never got updated to support AZW3. The K1/K2/DX(G) that is -- because even the K3 got support via a firmware update.
Periodicals also have to be original MOBI, because Amazon have never bothered to update the periodical viewer or the custom periodical file format for newer ebook formats (or update the application, or add landscape mode, or etc etc ad nauseam: the periodical viewer is a seriously undermaintained part of the Kindle firmware).
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