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Jacques Q. · 08-19-2022, 06:32 AM

Hello. Tomorrow is supposed to be the day (in France, but I guess it is the same everywhere) when one can't send Mobi/AZW files to a Kindle any more - which I've done exactly 33,314 times since 2012 as of today's count ! -. I've received warnings from Amazon for the last few weeks whenever I sent Mobis by e-mail (which is not often), though none when using Send-to-Kindle (my favourite method since you can store e-books in your Amazon library without sending them to a specific device and also go up to 50 kB per file).
I gave a few tries sending EPubs by e-mail (doesn't work with STK so far), specifically my Calibre library catalogue for instance, which I update every week or so, and the least I can say is it wasn't too conclusive. Some were plainly rejected, others had only part of their title or author's name retained when displayed (end of title or author's name cut off, that is, like "William Faul" for "William Faulkner"), and all lost their covers (ie no book cover visible when Kindle off or when beginning to read the book). And none showed any visible improvement upon my Mobis, obviously, on the contrary. The "technically no more up-to-date" reason given by Amazon to end Mobi is an obvious lie, the whole point being to discourage the use of "personal documents" (of various origins...) by basically diminishing their quality while "processing" them instead of letting Calibre do a mostly very good job.
SO : WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO if we are to try and retain decent e-book quality on our Kindles instead of seeing it go down steeply and actually LOSING some positive features by accepting the Amazon method ? (I should add I don't consider converting to PDF a valid method except in very specific cases, since PDF's limitations and overweight are known issues, and I'd rather send than sideload because using the Amazon cloud and collections is practical when you have over 30,000 e-books and the Kindle software will not list more than 15,000 - including collections -, so you have to send quite a few from the Amazon cloud if you want to read them.)
Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts/tricks/complaints to Amazon about this.

08-19-2022, 06:32 AM	#283
Jacques Q. Zealot Posts: 109 Karma: 1544 Join Date: Jul 2020 Location: Paris Device: quite a few Kindles...	Hello. Tomorrow is supposed to be the day (in France, but I guess it is the same everywhere) when one can't send Mobi/AZW files to a Kindle any more - which I've done exactly 33,314 times since 2012 as of today's count ! -. I've received warnings from Amazon for the last few weeks whenever I sent Mobis by e-mail (which is not often), though none when using Send-to-Kindle (my favourite method since you can store e-books in your Amazon library without sending them to a specific device and also go up to 50 kB per file). I gave a few tries sending EPubs by e-mail (doesn't work with STK so far), specifically my Calibre library catalogue for instance, which I update every week or so, and the least I can say is it wasn't too conclusive. Some were plainly rejected, others had only part of their title or author's name retained when displayed (end of title or author's name cut off, that is, like "William Faul" for "William Faulkner"), and all lost their covers (ie no book cover visible when Kindle off or when beginning to read the book). And none showed any visible improvement upon my Mobis, obviously, on the contrary. The "technically no more up-to-date" reason given by Amazon to end Mobi is an obvious lie, the whole point being to discourage the use of "personal documents" (of various origins...) by basically diminishing their quality while "processing" them instead of letting Calibre do a mostly very good job. SO : WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO if we are to try and retain decent e-book quality on our Kindles instead of seeing it go down steeply and actually LOSING some positive features by accepting the Amazon method ? (I should add I don't consider converting to PDF a valid method except in very specific cases, since PDF's limitations and overweight are known issues, and I'd rather send than sideload because using the Amazon cloud and collections is practical when you have over 30,000 e-books and the Kindle software will not list more than 15,000 - including collections -, so you have to send quite a few from the Amazon cloud if you want to read them.) Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts/tricks/complaints to Amazon about this. Last edited by Jacques Q.; 08-19-2022 at 10:45 AM.