New friends who started with Kindle often don't know the format of e-books.
What is the Mobi format? Why did it become azw3 on Kindle? Can Epub format be viewed on Kindle? What is the difference between these formats of
? Featured today will give you a supplementary lesson, introduces the difference between the three formats.
After reading, you never have to worry about the format of the e-book. The e-book
mobi in
mobi format is the e-book typesetting standard promoted by Amazon. The
mobi format standard is divided into two types, the earliest is KF7 (also called mobi7), and later Amazon introduced an improved version of KF8 (also called mobi8) standard. The
mobi7 standard does not support rich typesetting formats such as font replacement and bolding in the Kindle, while the mobi8 standard supports these rich typesetting formats.
However, Amazon does not support the push of mobi8 standard e-books to the Kindle.
Some friends once asked the pick:
"Why does the azw3 format e-books are converted to mobi format and pushed to the Kindle, the layout format will be greatly changed?"
This is because the conversion is based on the mobi7 standard.
For this reason, Calibre supports conversion to Kindle e-books (both format) that mix mobi7 and mobi8. Z3z
e-books (both) that mix mobi7 and mobi8 can restore complex layout to the greatest extent. Z3z
pushes to Kindle and supports 's complex and exquisite typesetting such as replacement, bold fonts, and embedded fonts.
supports real-time synchronization of reading progress and note annotation on each reading device.
and support keyword search. Z3z
If you use the public account [万 to read the forum] to push e-books, you don't need to worry about KF7 or KF8, because the siege divisions have already made a choice for you. Z3z
azw3 format e-books
mobi format books, pushed to Kindle, will become azw3 format.
You can understand azw3 as Amazon added a "shell" to the Mobi format e-book, the purpose is to protect the e-book copyright (DRM protection).
Amazon also does not support the transmission of e-book mailboxes in azw3 format to Kindle.
However, you can push it to Kindle through the official account [Wanread Forum].
Because the official account will convert the books in azw3 format in the background, will be converted into the mobi format that can be pushed, and the layout will be preserved and pushed to the Kindle. The most important feature of e-books in
epub format
epub format is that is highly versatile, and is currently the most popular e-book format (basically all reading apps except Kindle APP support). In addition to
, epub format has better compatibility for complex typesetting, charts, formulas and other elements than mobi7 format.
The current advantages of epub format are mainly reflected in the mixed layout of graphics and text, and embedded fonts.
The future epub format will support multimedia content such as audio and video (from Wikipedia).
In fact, Amazon developed the mobi format and the azw3 format independently based on epub format e-books.
You may be wondering, why didn't Amazon Kindle choose epub as the standard e-book format?
Amazon’s explanation is like this:
Our innovation speed is very fast, using our own standard format, we can quickly integrate innovation results into products..
For example, Whispersync technology (this technology can synchronize e-book reading progress information to various readers through wireless access to the Internet), and font size enlargement and reduction, etc. It is very beneficial for us to adopt our own e-book format for
. Z3z
Featured Jun once again reminded: public account [Wanread Forum] can support epub format, help you push epub format to Kindle.
小 In short, the Mobi format is an e-book transmission format developed by Amazon, while azw3 is a Mobi format with copyright protection. The
epub format is a universal e-book format that is supported by mainstream reading apps. The selection of
knows that you don’t want to care about these formats, just want to know how to read them on Kindle. So I recommend everyone to use the official account [Wanread Forum].
can push to Kindle regardless of its format!
