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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's Mobipocket format, not KF7. So if you've seen Mobipocket Code and how it looks, then you've seen what's incorrectly being called KF7.
The Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines 2019.1 mentions KF8 (aka Kindle Format 8) but there is no mention of KF7 or Kindle Format 7. Amazon calls it Mobi. ##
Now if anyone can show me on Amazon where KF7 is used, I'll happily stop saying KF7 is incorrect.
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Not KF--but it was
absolutely called Mobi7 by KDP/Amazon. I have the 2012 formatting Guidelines (along with all the others) and it's referred to as Mobi 7 there. Under Section 3, Formatting guidelines, page 10. To wit:
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Kindle Format 8 (KF8) is the next generation file format (replacing Mobi 7) for Kindle books and supports HTML 5 and CSS 3.
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That's why, if memory serves, we all stopped calling it Format 6 and started calling it 7, right? Does everybody remember that? The arguments on here as to whether the old mobi was 6 or 7? Sheesh.
Hell, it's STILL called
MOBI 7 by amazon. That's in the 2019 Guidelines. Do a search in 'em. It's hardly surprising that we all say KF7 instead of "mobi" given the conflation of the terms by Amazon, using "mobi" to mean
anything over time. Hell, in the 2019 Guidelines, they still reference .prc. When's the last time anyone here created a prc file?
Wolfie, dear, I know that pedantry is near and dear to your heart, but you GOTTA let that go. You're beyond beating a dead horse. That horse has been dead so long it's petrified now.
Hitch