Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's not about adding extra features. It's about getting rid of Mobi and repalcing it with KF8 so it will be easier to create Kindle eBooks as Mobi would never had to be dealt with again.
|
This is the only point you have made so far in this argument that I am in agreement with to some degree. Currently the burden falls on the publisher to produce books that render well (or at least readably) in the various Kindle delivery formats that Amazon produces from the publisher's source file. With three major delivery formats currently in use (MOBI7, KF8, and KFX) there is a lot to test.
The tool they provide to help with this, the Kindle Previewer, does only part of the job. It focuses on how the book will render on the newest apps and devices and leaves it up to the publisher to create and sideload MOBI files to check rendering on older devices.
It would be nice if Amazon's software could do a better job of automatically producing a MOBI fallback that renders well from source files that use modern HTML formatting. That would reduce the burden on publishers and provide more consistency in book formatting for uses of older devices.