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During your exploration, did you find something about why amazon's kindle doesn't work with EPUB?
by sdfin 11y ago
During your exploration, did you find something about why amazon's kindle doesn't work with EPUB?
- sondr3 11y agoBecause money. I doubt there's any really good reason besides the fact that they don't want you to just be able to copy books directly from your Kindle and read it elsewhere.
- steve19 11y agoPractically speaking it matters not. Calibre can do pretty lossless (practically speaking) conversions between formats. The limitations/features of ebook readers have a much greater influence on how a book looks than the format. I love the status-quo where Amazon pretends that their DRM is not hopelessly compromised and I get to strip the DRM from the vast quantities of ebooks I purchase there. I would much rather they keep turning this blind eye than adopt epub behind a more effective DRM scheme. That would be a huge loss to me. When my e-ink kindle can support high-resolution color images, smooth and fast LCD-like scrolling etc. then I might care about epub features, but while I don't want or expect more from my kindle than a paperback, I am quite happy.
- rpgmaker 11y agoI use a Kindle and it makes little to no difference at all. If you need you can edit a book in epub format and calibre converts it to mobi seamlessly in little to no time.