In a recent communication, Amazon has alerted Kindle users about significant changes set to take effect from next month. The notification pertains to the phasing out of support for sending MOBI (.mobi, .azw, .prc) files through the “Send to Kindle” feature, starting November 1, 2023. This change, as News18 pointed out, specifically impacts users attempting to send MOBI files via email and Kindle apps on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac.

  • nick@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Hello checking in here.

    Last night I finally got calibre and dedrm working. I have around 400 ebooks that I’ve bought from Amazon over the years,but my trust in Amazon has been eroded to the point I want local, drm-stripped copies in case they take the books back; it has happened, but not to me yet.

    The first book I converted: 1984.

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      1 year ago

      But you do have them attached to your Amazon account. So there’s likely no real usecase for you to want to push a mobi file to a kindle.

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        1 year ago

        Amazon has deleted books from peoples’ accounts in the past, so I would never trust that as the sole source for any book I owned. I don’t buy ebooks often but when I do they immediately get deDRMed and stored in my local archives.

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        1 year ago

        I do, for now, yep. And yeah you’re probably right, I’ve never down the push to device thing.

        I’m going to start buying my books elsewhere though, and suspect they will be epub format.