Thread: I have a book in .mobi and .epub formats. Should I convert to .azw3?
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Old 05-02-2016, 01:21 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by readeer View Post
Ahhh, gotcha, thanks! The epub is 12 or so mb and the mobi is 8 or so mb so I'm assuming it's not the same. Unless the file size expands converting from mobi to epub. Well, thank you!
Possibly the EPUB has an embedded font. MOBI doesn't support those (this is but one of the many ways that AZW3 improved on the old-mobi format) and conversion drops the font files from the resulting ebook archive.
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