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Originally Posted by avid01
Why do I do that? Simple: I use the Kindle as a to read device, not a to store all my reading device.  |
But that doesn't answer the question as to why you would copy files to your Kindle using a file browser rather than using Calibre's "Send to Device" facility. Your method is actually more work: you first have to save the file to disk from Calibre and then copy it to your Kindle. With "Send to Device" it's a one-step process.
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Kovid, if you are reading this: when one first starts up Calibre, it offers a setup screen, asks for my device type. My device, according to what's available on the setup screen, fits the Kindle 1-4 category. I understand you may want to offer support for default MOBI output for the very minority of Kindle users who are still on a device which does not AZW3 at all (well less than 5% of Kindle users in late 2016 I guess, the battery of my Kindle 4, which supported AZW3 from day one, not only through a software update, starts dying by now), so, perhaps on the setup screen you may distinguish between Kindle 1-4 (whichever of them can or cannot display AZW3), offering readers an easy one-click setup for best format, me, the 95% not having to ask for it on an obscured tech forum, where even not all the tech savvy nerds understood what I was trying to accomplish. 
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The reason for not offering AZW3 as a default is that you can't send this format to Amazon's Cloud, and an awful lot of people like to store their books in the Cloud.