Quote:
Originally Posted by ratinox
In practice, Topaz was never intended to be good. It was a way to quickly publish older books which lack digital sources and non-English language books.
|
It certainly sounds like a cunning scheme for quick paper source. Also the mobi format was only Latin-Roman, which was crazy in 2007 on first Kindle as that was solved even before PDB on Palm OS (Palm OS was probably ASCII only for PDB) and Kindles ran Linux. I was giving Linux courses in 1998.
So Topaz was the only way apart from PDF (not on 1st Kindle) to have non-Latin-Roman on Kindles before azw3/KF8. In theory you could have a pretty good version of a Topaz-like scheme today.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ratinox
tpz and azw1 are the same format. azw2 is something entirely separate: it is (was?) used to package game content.
|
Thanks. They dropped Interactive from Kindles ages ago.