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>You still can't load or read epubs directly on Kindles

To the average reader, does this have an negative impact?

Plenty. It doesn't support DRM'd ePubs adding an extra layer of complexity, Amazon doesn't allow "personal documents" sent via email to have covers and they are picky about ePub support and sometimes book conversions will fail but would otherwise work in a native ePub reader.

> Amazon doesn't allow "personal documents" sent via email to have covers

This doesn’t appear to be true. I have several non Amazon epubs that I sent using the web interface, all with covers.

Looking at it seems like they fixed this with Firmware 5.15.1 but for a while this was true.

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