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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But for those that use a K1, K2, DX, or DXG, if they complained about the Mobi not being good enough, would Amazon listen?
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mobi was obsolete when Amazon bought it (via buying Mobipocket) in /2015/ 2005, 2 years before the first Kindle.
Amazon did backport azw3/KF8 to many old models, but the K1, K2, DX, and DXG (All the gen1 & gen2) didn't have enough RAM. That was stupid on the DXG as it was released the same time as the K3, but they only bothered to update the screen.
Now with ending of Download & Transfer the K1, K2, DX, and DXG owners can only buy or borrow Amazon books via an app or a newer Kindle.
No Kindle should ever have used mobi/KF7 format. But Amazon didn't want to pay for Adobe encryption and it was years before they duplicated epub with their own encryption wrapper as azw3/KF8. Amazon is big on marketing and poor on software.
Amazon also had Topaz as their own reflowable scanned format. I think the K1 didn't do PDF and all the Kindles that did, until the Scribe, were too small for PDF. DX & DXG supposed to be especially for PDF, yet didn't crop margins, too slow and 9.7″ @ 150 dpi is too small. Again, Amazon uses proprietary DRM on PDFs, so they are encapuslated. The Scribe is crippled for PDF notes if offline and private. Stupid arrogance.
EDIT
Out of coffee error.