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Hi and thanks for the great work! Have you considered offering .mobi or .azw file formats of the books? With the 2023 browser update, even old Kindles now have a fast and functional web browser. It is almost possible to find and download Standard Ebooks directly from the Kindle browser, but for the file format.

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We do offer azw3 files for all of our books. https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kindle...

Yes, Amazon has changed the game and they only allow downloads in .AZW, .PRC, .MOBI or .TXT format now.

I understand that this is their fault and not yours, but maybe it could be interesting for you to offer one of these formats now that the Kindle browser is actually usable?

> they only allow downloads in .AZW

Do they actually check the file content or just the name?

If the latter, just a .AZW alias to the actual .AZW3 might work ...

(I can't test, don't have a Kindle nowadays)

I don't know. The Kindle browser doesn't have any copy and paste function, so it's difficult to work around any limitation.

I meant the SE site serving ".azw" files that are the same as the .azw3 - I understood that it's the Kindle browser that limits the downloads, right?

Once the files are in the Kindle, it would probably work out OK.

Ah, I see. Great idea! I hope they see your comment.

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