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Originally Posted by tomsem
AZW3 is explicitly for side-loading, e.g. with Download for Transfer via USB from your Amazon account. Amazon never explicitly supported it for Send To Kindle (except as was pointed out when you were able to fool Send To Kindle by renaming with .txt extension, and just as .epub was supported by using .zip extension).
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That statement that azw3 was only intended for sideloading seems more than a bit off in light of the sheer number of azw3 format ebooks that Amazon has synced to it's ereaders. You do remember when the choice of ebook formats sent to your ereader was mobi or KF8/azw3? You remember the fuss when in January, 2023, the K4PC and K4Mac apps dropped downloading .azw3 in favour of KFX? It's been less than 16 months, after all.
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Originally Posted by tomsem
But SB knows very well that AZW3 is incompatible with Send To Kindle, that it doesn't support advanced typography features, and that Kindle customers cannot add these to their Amazon cloud storage as is.
Instead they discourage Kindle people from even trying the ePub (which they explicitly say is for 'All devices and apps except Kindles and Kobos') and make it sound like AZW3 is going to give the best results, when functionally that is just not the case. You need an epub file to get the best functional results, via Send To Kindle.
It is not rocket science to do some minimal testing with an actual Kindle and Kindle Previewer and Send To Kindle as a sanity check. Even running it through ePubcheck would probably suffice. I assume their CSS and HTML markup is consistent for all titles so they only need to do this once.
If they ever want donations from Kindle users they would make sure the ePub works okay and announce 'we have made sure our ePubs convert well with Send to Kindle' and get rid of the AZW3 option altogether.
It just seems lazy and short-sighted.
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I still fail to see why you seem to feel entitled to having Standard Ebooks spend the time and effort to add the media queries to their ePub ebooks to make them compatible with Send to Kindle. Does the term 'Karen' hold any meaning for you? Are you offering to fund the ongoing effort that this will take? Or are you going to sideload their azw3 version?
As for SB saying that their ePubs are not intended for use with Kindles and Kobos? That is their privilege. If you don't like it, you can download the ePub from Gutenberg or other PD book supplier, spend the effort to edit it to make it compatible with StK and then send it to StK.
As for your unbounded love for KFX? To me as a person who is used to the flexibility of ePub, KFX with it's limitations is a non-starter.