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Originally Posted by Martinoptic
If you use file share for kindle app the ebooks need to be mobi format.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
...I read that even direct from Amazon to iOS app that only mobi/KF7 is supported and not the almost like epub KF8/azw3.
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I use AZW3 files for all my devices including the iPad.
My process is:
- acquire a book from Google Play or some store other than Amazon.
- add book to Calibre with the ACSM and DeDRM plugins installed, which gives me a clean epub file
- fix up the metadata, making sure to set an ASIN identifier to match the Kindle version of the book
- convert to AZW3 in Calibre
- use the Quality Check plugin in Calibre to "Fix ASIN for Kindle Fire"
- add the book to whichever device I want to use it on.
--- For cookbooks and travel guides, I use Apple File Sharing to put it on the iPad.
--- For fiction I use Calibre's "send to device" feature to put it on my Kindle Paperwhite.
--- For reference, research, or other books with a lot of maps or charts, I just double click the AZW3 file so it opens in the Kindle for PC app.
This works well for me because I don't care about synchronizing between multiple devices. I like having all my files recognized as books instead of docs. They can mingle with the ones that I buy from Amazon and look the same. They have cover images and page numbers and goodreads integration, and if they're bigger than 50M, that's o.k. too.