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Amazon issues warning about major change for Kindle users starting next month (goodereader.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] inasaba@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Some of us still use devices that only support .mobi

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This news wouldn’t really affect you, though, would it?

Send to Kindle feature is only for Amazon Kindle, and Kindle apps, and those have been able to support more than .mobi since the Kindle 2 (non-touch with a keyboard) which was discontinued nearly 15 years ago.

[–] inasaba@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have a Kindle. It does not support EPUB. This does affect me. I used to use a bookmarklet to send articles to my Kindle, and this would make that unfeasible.

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Kindles don’t natively “support” Epub, but you can Send to Kindle or even email things to your Kindle and it will get formatted into a format that Amazon will accept. I’ve done this myself for years on Kindles and for devices with Kindle apps.

For your bookmarklet, you’d have to either update it to send as Epub or find another option that sends as Epub instead of Mobi.

In your situation, it sounds like just emailing articles to your Kindle would be the best option. This article can tell you how to figure out your Kindle email and how to send files to it.

[–] Paradox@lemdro.id 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So just set Calibre to convert the books to mobi before sending it to them

[–] inasaba@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

That doesn't work for the workflow of sending articles to my Kindle with a bookmarklet.