![]() ![]() That’s saying nothing of innovations like color e-ink and stylus support. These more versatile devices generally run Android, meaning that they can access Kindle libraries via Amazon’s app on top of easily loading up DRM-free files. ![]() Meanwhile competitors like Onyx, Xiaomi, and Pocketbook have been offering tons of new tech and form factors. Kindle models have iterated in teeny-tiny increments for years, only gaining USB-C charging support on the latest models. This is entirely speculative on my part, but it seems to me that the widening market of ebook readers is making Amazon sweat a little. ![]() Amazon announced support for ePub files in the Send To Kindle and Kindle Documents Service earlier this year. An analogy might be the Sony-branded MP3 players from the early 2000s which didn’t actually play MP3s, instead insisting users convert all their music to the proprietary ATRAC format. Kindle refusing to allow easy use of the most common open digital book standard was a glaring downside to Amazon’s mostly-closed system. MOBI) (no longer supports the most up-to-date Kindle features)Īnd the formats supported by the Send to Kindle apps: Here are the supported formats by the email address (or as Amazon calls it, the Kindle Personal Documents Service): AZW is Amazon’s own format, however, and it doesn’t make too much sense to drop it (note: the latest versions of the format use the. The company argues that MOBI is outdated and we’re inclined to agree (but so is RTF and that will continue to be supported). That’s not the full story, though, Amazon giveth and Amazon taketh away – support for sending MOBI and AZW files will be dropped. The Send to Kindle applications will gain support for the format in late 2022. This service now accepts EPUB files – a quick test shows that this change is already live. While the company still hasn’t fully embraced the competing standard, at least you can now skip the manual conversion step.Īs you may or may not know, you can email a document or book to your address and it will be automatically converted and loaded onto your device the next time it connects to the Internet. Those of you who use a Kindle ebook reader but don’t buy books from Amazon know the hassle of converting from the widely-accepted EPUB format into something that the Kindle can actually read – typicall MOBI or AZW. Kindle devices unfortunately do not support this format, so EPUB files must be converted to Amazons MOBI format before they can be read on your Kindle. ![]()
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