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Originally Posted by dwanthny
You and I both. Just when you think you have it down they go and twist things up again.
Apparently on the kindle itself the files are the way you described them azw or tpz. Since I don't own a Kindle I don't know. I do know how they appear in Kindle for PC and for some reason they chose .prc as the extension for both topaz and azw formats.
I have actually bought a normal encrypted book and had success with the script and I downloaded a sample of a book I knew to be tpz and sure enough the script told me that it was beyond it's ability because it was tpz.
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Okay I'm about to confuse you even more. MOBI and eReader are both PDB file formats which is Palm Data Base file. However the ereader convention for it's extension is PDB, they chose not to change their extension from the palm default. Mobipocket uses two extensions MOBI and PRC.
PDB are container files used by the Palm OS so there is no convention on how data is stored in each PDB file, it is dependent on the software.
As to why Amazon chose to keep one extension is because extensions don't matter. Extensions are just a name/classifications. I can see them choosing one format to reduce customer getting confused about PRC, AMZ, TPZ, AMZ1 they chose to use one extension and let the reading software determine how to handle the different formats.
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