
Ideally, of course, they would start delivering personal documents in kfx for devices that support it (make that a toggle to avoid compatibility issues). Regarding the cover issue: I hope it annoys so many people that Amazon will have to come up with a fix.

They will look better if hypenated epubs are used as their source. those that know their way around Calibre), books won’t be randomly delivered in mobi anymore regardless of the ‘send to Kindle’ procedure and original format used (e.g.

The discontinuation of mobi will actually lead to this: For most users, the books will look pretty much the same, have much better navigation but will be missing cover thumbnails.įor ‘experienced’ users (e.g. with the help of a Calibre plugin) been hyphenated. As far as formatting goes, azw3 is of course better and supports hyphenation if the source files have been manually (e.g. As far as covers go, mobi’s show them, azw3’s don’t. If all EPUB files will be converted to AZW3, ideally we'll be able to sync all books across Kindle devices while keeping a decent formatting and the covers. Is there finally a way around to send Mobi files to the cloud and preserve thumbnail and settings?Īmazon is discontinuing the MOBI format, which is currently causing the poor conversion issues. The text however will be poorly displayed.Ģ) if you convert the ebook to Mobi via Kindle Preview, then send it to Kindle, it will generate a dual Mobi and preserve the right formatting, but won’t display the thumbnail.ģ) If you side load the ebook via Calibre in Azw3 format, it will keep both the thumbnail and the justified text, but of course won’t be saved in the Kindle cloud. The file will appear as a personal document in your Kindle, and will preserve the thumbnail. You should receive the file (saved at the documents folder) in a few minutes.

Attach the ePub files and send the email. Enter the tite (subject) of the email (or leave it blank). How can you send a Mobi file to Kindle via email and keep a decent formatting?ġ) If you convert an ebook to Mobi via Calibre first, then send it to the Kindle cloud (either via email or Calibre itself), it will lose the justified text, even if you had set the right converting options in Calibre. Press Ctrl V (Command V) to paste the Kindle devices email address into the To: section of the email. I know there have been other posts about this some years ago, but I’m hoping something has changed in the meantime.
