The other crazy thing is that epubs sent to the personal document service get delivered as MOBI to the iOS Kindle app, so so much for any improvement there! And look DOWNRIGHT UGLY unless they contain specific fallbacks for MOBI.Īnd covers DO get delivered to BOTH the Kindle iOS app and to the Kindle Android apps! Although why they don’t support sending their own azw3 file format to the Kindle personal document service is hard to say. This will affect some smaller publishers that offer books for Kindles in MOBI format, but at least with the addition of ePub support people will still be able to easily send ebooks acquired from outside of Amazon using the Send to Kindle apps, provided the ePubs don’t have DRM, of course.Īmazon seems to prefer that only books purchased from them get all the perks, I wouldn’t hold my breath on them changing THAT any time soon. So people will still be able to sideload MOBI books using a USB cable if they want to, but Amazon will no longer support that format as part of the Kindle Personal Documents Service so MOBI books will no longer be wirelessly delivered or added to your Kindle account for syncing and backup like they are now. MOBI is an older file format and won’t support the newest Kindle features for documents.
This change won’t affect any MOBI files already in your Kindle library. MOBI) files to your library using Send to Kindle.
Note: Beginning in late 2022, you’ll no longer be able to send MOBI (.AZW.
You’ll still be able to read MOBI files that you’ve added to your Kindle, but you just won’t be able to wirelessly send MOBI files to Kindles anymore using Amazon Kindle Personal Documents Service.įrom the Personal Documents help page at Amazon: To be clear, they aren’t dropping support for MOBI format on Kindles.
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