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Old 03-07-2018, 05:13 AM   #26
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JSWolf: Most of the books on the Sony 505 are in lrf, not epub, the 505 isn't very good at displaying epub. I convert it to mobi purely because that's what I've always done. It seems to work well, so I see no need to change. If I download a book from Amazon (I don't have wifi, so download to my pc to transfer via usb) they always arrive in azw3. What's the difference between Amazon's prefered format (azw3) KF8 and Mobi?
Most of the kindle books in the MR library are mobi.
Sony's LRF has very poor font support. It uses fake bold and fake italics and it shows. Also, the font used is not all that good anyway. With ePub, you can at least embed the font you want to use.

As for KF8, it supports more features. Also, more features are supported with Kindle firmware if you have a PW2 or later. If you want to make any changes, you can do so with the Calibre editor. You cannot easily make changes to Mobi.
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