Thread: Signs of a further shift toward KFX
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Old 03-31-2021, 03:20 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
... Despite the shift to KFX, two major reading platforms have not supported it up to now: the Look Inside preview and the Kindle Cloud Reader (KCR).
I'm sure I'm missing something, but I have fuzzy recollection that Kindle for Mac and Kindle for iOS apps also use KCR renderer?? Or am I totally misremembering?

I know K4Mac will download and render KFX, and if KFX is blocked, it will download KF8 then immediately convert that KF8 to KCR and delete the KF8 version. Does that mean K4Mac has both a KCR renderer and a KFX renderer?

Also, what formats can Kindle app for iOS currently receive and read? Can it read KFX? KCR? (I'm pretty sure it can read old mobi and it cannot read KF8.)

I feel very jumbled here and may have conflated a bunch of things, so appreciate any light that can be shed.

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... turns out that the new Look Inside is actually using the KCR platform to render the preview ...
Interesting. How can you tell?

Thank you
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