When you order a book from us, you can download any or all of these formats, as you prefer. Take Control books were originally distributed only in PDF format, but in 2010 we added EPUB and Mobipocket (or MOBI) formats too. But for new downloads, always use EPUB format instead. If you already have MOBI versions of Take Control books on your Kindle, you can leave them there and they’ll continue to work indefinitely. Therefore all of what follows is outdated, and we’re leaving it here for purely historical reasons. As a result, MOBI files are no longer needed or useful, and we no longer distribute them. On December 22, 2022, Amazon finally updated the Send to Kindle apps for Mac and PC to version 1.1.1.254, which adds EPUB support. Important Update: On May 2, 2022, Amazon announced EPUB support for Kindle, which will also mean discontinuation of support for MOBI. 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 The company argues that MOBI is outdated and we’re inclined to agree (but so is RTF and that will continue to be supported).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.
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