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Old 11-05-2021, 09:49 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by hobnail View Post
One of the things that I think confuses people is that there are what I think of as two "flavors" of MOBI; there's the MOBI container and the MOBI format.
Ok, I wasn't aware of this. Thanks!!

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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
That explains why you are getting MOBI format. The second generation Kindle is twelve years old and does not support any of the newer formats. If you download a book targeting that device you will get MOBI format even though the book is available in newer and better formats when delivered to a newer device. Much of the original book formatting provided by the publisher is lost in MOBI format. You would be far better off installing the Kindle for PC/Mac app and using that to download Kindle books.
Oh, right. I had no idea of this difference with the older kindle. Thanks!!

Yep, I will install the pc version of Kindle and use that instead. I assume the books are fairly easy to locate once downloaded? probably in %appdata% at a guess.
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