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A question about files format
I've some free ebooks on both formats epub and mobi.
What's the best one that i can put on my PW3: 1) mobi 2) epub converted to azw3 with Calibre Thanks in advance. |
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AZW3. It is like MOBI, only better.
![]() EPUB --> MOBI is lossy, because EPUB supports more features than MOBI, but AZW3 is as capable as EPUB. So if you have both EPUB and MOBI formats for a book (and I imagine the MOBI was probably converted from the EPUB), I recommend using an AZW3 converted from the EPUB. |
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I think azw3 gives you more features and most people in here recommend it. Personally I convert to mobi, not for any real reason but out of habit. I started using it before azw3 existed and I've never had any reason to change it so far. It works fine for me.
I think if I was starting over I might start using azw3 because people here usually recommend it. Mobi does have one small advantage, actually. I like to use Moon+ reader on my phone and it can handle mobi files but not azw3 files. That's a fairly trivial advantage since I usually convert to epub for Moon+ anyway but now and then I just want to take a look at something and it's not worth the trouble to convert to epub and with mobi I can do that. Barry |
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Thanks a lot
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