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Originally Posted by lesley9
Kindle owners have more need for file conversion services than a Kobo user, for sure, given how important the epub and pdf format is. It would be nice if Kobo offered a way in-house or official 3rd party to convert something they don't natively support. What that might be, I don't know but Calibre's popular for a reason.
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Again, you're missing the point. Effectively The ONLY format Kobo doesn't natively support is Kindle's own proprietary format, converting of which requires DRM removal. Kobo is never going to offer conversion that includes DRM removal, any more than Amazon would.
Calibre is popular for MANY reasons, most especially because it is quite simply the ne plus ultra of ebook library management software - but it also has great plug-in support, including the DRM removal plugin. That is a plugin, not a native Calibre feature, for legal/ethical reasons, and any Kindle user who wanted to read a DRM-protected epub would need such a function exactly as any Kobo user wanting to read a Kindle format ebook would.
To sum up, again, Kindle's send to email service does not offer ANY functionality not available to Kobo users by other means. Kindle's send to email only works on DRM-free ebooks, and those Kobo devices with Dropbox integration don't need any drm-free formats converted.
The other thread I linked to showed that Kindle's "conversion" of PDFs is nothing more than wrapping them in Kindle's proprietary format and often renders them unreadable on e-ink devices, while the Sage not only handles PDFs as is but at 8 inches is bigger than any Kindle. Having tried reading PDFs on 6 inch, 6.8 inch, 7 inch and now 8 inch devices, the 8-inch is imo the smallest size that I'd consider for reading PDFs.