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Originally Posted by rcentros
Why is it time for Mobi to "go?" It still works — I still read .mobi books even though I could easily convert them — often I'll download both the .ePub and .mobi version of books I buy on Humble Bundle, etc., so I can read them on either the Kindles or my other eReaders. Feedbooks and others also do both ePub and Mobi on their free titles.
Choice is good.
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I don't get it either.
My computer still has some .txt files. Those aren't going away since sometimes you need simplicity (usually for programming rather than reading, but still). While I use a Kobo (so have little use for the Mobi format), Calibre can read Mobi (I've done that once or twice and it looked indistinguishable from an AZW or ePub) and I could send a Mobi to my Kobo if I felt like it.
Last year I bought a few AZW ebooks from Amazon that I couldn't get from Kobo. Well, I
thought I downloaded AZWs. At least one was a Mobi file. I converted it an ePub and didn't notice anything different between it and AZW files I had converted into ePubs.
Black Library makes their ebooks available as Mobi and ePub formats. If I were using a Kindle, I would have to buy ePubs instead of Mobi now. This sounds... strange. It's not an issue for someone with Calibre but I'm sure Amazon would rather people not use Calibre, lol. I've seen this same setup for a lot of free ebook publishers as well such as Gutenberg (they typically offer ePub, Mobi described as "Kindle", and plain text, sometimes Zip although I don't know what's in the Zip files). Archive.org distributes Mobi but not AZW, and so forth.
I found a post on an unexpected benefit to using Mobi vs AZW. Link:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-engla...shire-61237488