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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Thing is, it's time for Mobi go away.
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So... you think Amazon should screw over everyone who wants to read periodicals, and everyone who has existing stocks of mobi books which are not available in other formats? As far as I can tell from your previous responses, you think exactly that, but you condemn people who use older Kindles -- which still work and can still buy stuff, even newly-published stuff -- for using "EOL" hardware, even though Amazon's reasoning for stopping publishing firmware for older devices -- the maintenance burden -- is *exactly the same* as your stated reasoning for dropping entire file formats in which a huge stock of existing works are published. The difference is, if an older Kindle no longer gets firmware updated, it's still useful and you can still read everything you could read before and buy new stuff too. If a new Kindle firmware release loses support for an entire file format, huge chunks of stuff you already have on there suddenly become useless, and you can't read them any more. This would wreck Kindles' reputation, and rightly so.
(I do have to wonder what you think Kindles are for, if it's not reading.)