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Originally Posted by kpoviv
I hate AZW3 because on my first kindle I had all the books in that format. I didn't have a computer and downloaded all the books I liked in internet cafes. When the kindle stopped working I lost all the books I had saved, which were more than 500 and even then I didn't know how to use Goodreads so I don't even remember all the books I had read in all those years.
With .MOBI, if my kindle breaks right now, I'll be able to recover all the books because they're in the account's cloud.
Those of Amazon are geniuses:
If you use AZW3= you have all the features of a purchased book, but you don't have the option to save them in the cloud.
If you use .MOBI= you can save them in the cloud, but you don't have a page count and the images are small.
If you use DOCX= you have large images and you can save the books in the cloud, but you don't have chapters or pages.
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This is all nonsense.
1) Don't rely on Amazon's cloud at all. Make local backups*.
2) Amazon isn't accepting mobi for Send to Kindle soon, and hasn't accepted them for KDP uploads for reflowable (=real ebooks) for ages.
3) If you don't have chapters, pages or correct size images you are not using Word (or LO Writer properly).
I've been formatting ebooks for years. I edit in LO Writer "odt" format and an extra Save As in MS Word's "docx" format. I import the docx to calibre and make an epub. If needed, I can put a height auto and a % for width for images (of screen or enclosing container) in the CSS.
I experimented with "Send to Kindle" years ago and it's garbage compared to "sideload" (USB transfer) an azw3 or a dual mobi (one that's for ancient kindles and has essentially azw3 in it for modern Kindles).
I only upload epub2 to Amazon KDP (on their advice).
I only put azw3 or dual mobi on ACTUAL Kindles, and ONLY from Calibre, never ever from Amazon.
Been buying Amazon Kindle ebooks for about 9 years. Mostly (and now ALWAYS) only go Content & Devices and
Download for PC transfer via USB, which will work also for an Android phone or tablet that has USB2Go to see a Kindle as a USB memory stick and has a file manager.
I actually now only read the Amazon ebooks on a Kobo.
It's a separate topic, but unless it's text books the page number and page count is irrelevant. For fiction the important things are % read and total word count. Page count varies according to size, margins and font (size and face) for paper and ebooks.
(* Backups are not really backups unless there is no DRM – or it's removed, but all the ebooks actually bought from Amazon can be downloaded again on to a new Kindle even if you have no backups as long as the new Kindle is registered to the same account.)