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My biggest confusion about Send-to-kindle, is that you can't send an `AZW3` file. It's the format that Amazon uses; it works if you transfer it by USB; for some
by powersnail 4y ago
My biggest confusion about Send-to-kindle, is that you can't send an `AZW3` file. It's the format that Amazon uses; it works if you transfer it by USB; for some reason, you just can't send it by email. Makes no sense to me.
- innocenat 4y agoAFAIK iOS Kindle App can't read AZW3. It's converted to AZK. Amazon probably don't have AZW3->AZK pipeline.
- powersnail 4y agoThat just sounds even more curious to me. How can a company make an app that doesn't read a format it invented? AZW3 has been around for years. There's got to be enough time for them to implement it.
- innocenat 4y agoI heard that it's because Amazon don't want to use WebKit for HTML rendering. AZW3 is mostly EPUB in different package. Don't quote me on this though.
- wtallis 4y agoWhy would Amazon have to use WebKit for HTML rendering? Does Apple have rules about that which apply to more than just web browsers? (IIRC there's also some restriction against JIT, but that would only matter for JS-heavy stuff, which the web is but ebooks definitely aren't.)
- brewdad 4y agoI honestly think that Amazon can't fathom a world where you could end up with an AZW3 file that wasn't purchased, and therefore directly downloadable from, their store.