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Old 09-21-2017, 12:10 AM   #624
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
So basically, when an eBook is supposed to be DRM free, KFX botches that.
I agree. It’s a good thing that KFX is easily avoided in most cases. For now.

I do have some concerns that this may not always be true going forward. Since Amazon is adding new ebook features via KFX it may not always be avoidable. For example, interactive textbooks and kindle in motion rely on KFX. If you get one of these books in another format the new features are lost. (That may actually be a good thing in some cases.)

I have noticed that books published with the new Kindle Create program are normally delivered in KFX but fall back to MOBI on devices/apps that do not support it. A KF8 version of those books is unavailable so some formatting may be lost if KFX is avoided.

Even worse, I have found books in recently supported languages that are only available in KFX. They cannot be downloaded for transfer via USB and are unavailable to apps/devices that do not support KFX. I suspect this will be more common in the future.
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