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Originally Posted by tomsem
KFX has been the direct download format ever since they introduced 'enhanced typography'. That includes the apps. It was possible to prevent the PC/Mac apps from downloading KFX but that was just a lucky thing for people that wanted to remove DRM more easily.
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Please explain how you got from your statement above to "AZW3 is explicitly for side-loading". And please note that my Android tablet still gets .azw3 from Amazon. Perhaps that the last Android update for it was also the first and that was quite a few years back has something to do with that.
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Originally Posted by tomsem
KFX is functionally the best format to use on Kindle platform, period. "When in Rome".
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Damning with faint praise. It makes me feel rather sorry for those stuck in the Amazon walled garden of an ecosystem.
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Originally Posted by tomsem
I do not side load to Kindles at all, and deal with AZW3 only because I buy books mostly from Amazon and I download that format and have calibre convert to ePub so I can read with non Amazon devices and apps (which I do).
Except for experimentation, I don't convert to or from KFX. ePub and PDF are the 'formats of record', not AZW3 or KFX. If I get a book in epub, I let Amazon convert it to KFX for reading on Kindle platform.
So SB is wasting their time and effort providing AZW3 as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps that aligns with the preference of the Kindle people using their service. I have no way to know.
As far as I can tell, the 'compatible epub' versions look perfectly fine when they are fed to Send To Kindle for conversion (I haven't found any with footnotes to see if they popup). They don't actually need to do anything other than change the wording on their web site.
If they got rid of AZW3, they could direct Kindle owners to download 'compatible' epub and use Send to Kindle, or convert to Kindle format with calibre.
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And for those who do not want to use StK? I suspect that you are part of a minute minority when it comes to Standard Ebooks. The number of people who may prefer books that are formatted with azw3 in mind and that they don't have to shuttle through Amazon is, from what I've read, likely to be a much larger number.
And why would they need to get rid of azw3? If you want to download a compatible ePub and use StK, exactly what is stopping you? And why do you want those who may be happily downloading and sideloading azw3 to be unable to do so?