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Old 05-12-2023, 07:41 PM   #646
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
But now that it is here for me, I find it sort of underwhelming. Not something I can see myself using for any reason. I barely use Word for anything.
I took a look at network traffic to see what Word is sending to Amazon. For the “kindle book” option it uploads a docx file and for the “printed document” option it converts to PDF and sends that. It adds nothing that you couldn’t do already using the existing save and PDF export options combined with the send-to-kindle website.

I agree with calling it underwhelming. I believe that it only exists because Microsoft and Amazon want to work together against Apple and Google.
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