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Originally Posted by Quoth
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In fact only on an app (as the Fire is really a kind of Android tablet with Kindle App pre-installed).
The Scribe (any version) isn't supported.
It likely would be useless on a phone or even a 7" tablet.
It's just a novel. Not illustrated or a textbook.
Actually, logically Amazon will eventually stop making eInk Kindles.
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I guess Amazon think of their kindle as reading platform, whether that's an general purpose device with an app or a piece of hardware just for consuming it. Where "it" is "something to read in whatever format". So a PDF becomes a "kindle edition book" because as a PDF it's this thing which a kindle (device) can or can't display.
I tried viewing PDFs on kindles in the past and it was not ok. Is it even supported any more? I've long since resigned myself to reading PDFs on the Amazon Fire Max 11 tablet. It's not so bad - it's got a great display. Not sure of the need for precise formatting for fiction and anyway, isn't azw3/mobi/epub etc just a wrapper for html? Pretty sure that can handle all but the most deliberately crazy formatting with that.
Once upon a time I was interested in a larger kindle to do so but none existed; recently they've introduced the Scribe range but they'd need to reduce the price by about 80% plus I'd need to be sure I could read PDFs on it.
I can't imagine Amazon stopping eInk devices any time soon - they must be making an absolute fortune from them.