Amazon Kindle E-Readers Will Now Make It Easier to Load EBooks You Didn’t Buy From Amazon

In a possible blow to all of the apps and web sites which have popped up alongside the Amazon Kindle to streamline the method of changing EPUB e-book information to the e-reader’s propriety file format, beginning in “late 2022,” the Kindle Personal Documents Service will finally support EPUB files, increasing the place customers can supply their content material.

The Amazon Kindle’s authentic AZW e-book file format was primarily based on the MOBI format created for an e-reader app referred to as Mobipocket, which was first launched again in 2000 for all kinds of PDAs and older cell units. Over the years it has advanced into the KF8/AZW3 format, and now the KFX format, that are all proprietary to the Kindle. For those that solely depend on Kindle e-readers and apps and solely purchase ebooks from Amazon, a proprietary file format isn’t a difficulty, notably when Amazon presents one of many largest choices of ebooks presently out there, and a streamlined method to get the information onto its units.

But there are numerous e-readers out there available on the market that supply higher options than the Kindle does, together with colour E Ink screens, and all of them as a substitute assist the EPUB e-book file format (amongst others), which is the most well-liked format on the earth. It’s additionally a format that Amazon, so far, has refused to assist. This has usually meant that somebody seeking to purchase an e-book reader has needed to both absolutely decide to the Amazon Kindle ecosystem, or select one of many many options and keep on with their selection, as a result of e-book information they’d bought or downloaded weren’t cross-compatible.

That’s nonetheless principally the case, however in line with a lately up to date assist web page on the Amazon web site for its Kindle Personal Documents Service, which streamlines the method of sending information and paperwork to Kindle e-readers, there’ll quickly be a workaround. Starting in late 2022, customers will have the ability to both electronic mail EPUB information to their system or use one of many Send to Kindle apps to get EPUB ebooks onto their Amazon e-readers. The Kindle nonetheless can’t natively load EPUB information, so connecting the e-reader to a pc and manually copying EPUB information over continues to be not an choice, however the Send to Kindle service will convert EPUBs into Kindle-friendly KF8/AZW3 information. It’s not an ideal resolution, however it’s nonetheless a welcome lodging for customers sitting on a mountain of EPUB information who wish to go for a Kindle system.

The assist web page additionally factors out that Amazon is planning to drop assist for sending older MOBI information by way of the Send to Kindle service as nicely. “Beginning in late 2022, you’ll no longer be able to send MOBI (.AZW, .MOBI) files to your library using Send to Kindle,” the web page says. “This change won’t affect any MOBI files already in your Kindle library. MOBI is an older file format and won’t support the newest Kindle features for documents.” Why Amazon isn’t merely up-converting older MOBI information to KF8/AZW3s isn’t recognized, however for these refusing to let go of an outdated assortment of e-book information, there’s at all times free apps like Calibre for changing between any e-book format you need.