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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What I don't get is why not dump Mobi and release firmware for the older devices that handle KF8 and not Mobi? Heck, Sony was able to fit ePub into the 500.I don't see why Amazon cannot fit KF8 in the older Kindles. If they have to remove Mobi, then all that needs to be done is the Amazon Mobi eBook be download again.
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If they could have, they would have. They retrofitted the earlier K3's, 4's, etc. Obviously, the K1/2 and the DX/Keyboard simply can't support it. I mean, c'mon, guys, the K1/2 were barely HTML 3.2, never mind ePUB3.0/KF8.
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As for Apple, they did screw lots of people with the crappy 1st Gen iPad. Even when a lot of apps were compatible with whatever version iOS, they still didn't run properly. So how do you support iBooks from a 1st gen iPad and the current version iBooks at the same time with different issues/fixes/etc.?
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Yes, they bloody well did. I paid something like $1600 for mine, and they didn't even support it a YEAR. Not even a year? Screw 'em. Maybe other people are so obsessed about something looking "cool" that they'll pay silly money for a phone, or a laptop, tablet, etc., and live with being treated like dirt, but I won't. Certainly not knowingly. As they say, "fool me once..."
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
I think there might be an international outcry. I have the impression MOBI is the format of choice for those whose No.1 Kindle feature is the email-own-books-to-Amazon-servers.
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Sorry? I don't follow what you mean.
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Originally Posted by Shad Plante
That could be fixed by allowing you to send an azw or kfx using send to kindle.
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Nope, it couldn't, and AFAIK, you can't use STK for AZW or KFX. It may well have changed, but the last time I looked, "Send to Kindle" was nothing more than using the dedicated email address, and not that long ago, it was STILL turning out KF7's, not KF8. Even if it was turning out KF8s now, that's NOT AZW or KFX.
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
It could indeed, but Amazon seem to have decided not to do so.
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I genuinely don't think that's it. There are millions of KF7 ebooks on Amazon, and at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions of KF7 devices. I'm 99% sure that if they could be retrofitted remotely, Amazon would have done so. They did so for the early 3's and 4's, as I mentioned above.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Can't be KFX.Not all Kindles support this. The idea is to keep KF8 and dump Mobi.
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And..unless I'm mistaken, isn't KCR still MOBI, to this day, not KF8? No fonts, etc.? Anyone know? I freely admit I don't spend much time around KCR.
Regardless--at some point, sure, Amazon may choose to stop supporting the KF7's, but don't forget, they were selling the DX until what, 18 months or so ago? Why wouldn't they have tweaked the DX, if it was easily doable? Nyah...I suspect it's just not that simple.
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