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Originally Posted by Quoth
Older Kindles can't use KF8. They may not even have enough RAM even if Amazon wanted to. See DXG (B009) vs earlier Kindle Keyboard (B008, updated to have KF8).
So "Dual Mobi" is often used for ebook stores that don't offer two Kindle download links (which is confusing). Only Amazon knows exactly what Kindle a customer has and they convert the uploaded epub2 in advance to all the formats (old mobi, azw/KF8, and kfx) and deliver based on the customer choice if they have more than one model. They ask even for Download to PC, which model it's for if you have more than one model.
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Thing is, it's time for Mobi go away. Mobi's time has come and gone. It's time for it to go away. If this means that these older Kindle's cannot get new eBooks, so be it. If Amazon could come up with a new firmware that allowed any of these older Kindles to handle KF8 and not Mobi, then that would be a good way to keep these older Kindles in use. It would make making eBooks for Kindles a lot easier.
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The main Amazon FW page lists 5.12.4 and "unavailable" at the PW3. This is unusual. I have the 5.12.4 on a PW3. I'm thinking that for particular versions of PW3 there is a problem with 5.12.4 and they are working on it, or else they'd not even list 5.12.4. It's not long since 5.12.4 or 5.12.5 was released, so it's premature to claim that Amazon have stopped supporting the PW3 with newer firmware. I bought my 2nd PW3 new off Amazon after they were already selling the PW4.
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Amazon pulled 5.12.4 not long after they posted it. But the problem was that it was still able to be downloaded with a sync. So some still got 5.12.4 when they weren't supposed to. It is surprising that 5.12.5 is not available for the PW3. I didn't think that Amazon was EOLing the PW3. Given that the Voyage got 5.12.5, the PW3 should have as well. Amazon should be telling customers what's going on with the PW3 and 5.12.5 instead of just not releasing it.