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Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by fastball on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:22AM (#32422202)
> Combined with Calibre

I'd imagine something like < 1% of Kindle owners use Calibre, so presumably the value prop is... an e-reader that works well without needing any external software.

Most people just buy books from Amazon I expect, so they don't really need multi-format support.

Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by themadturk on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:17PM (#32432493)
I use Calibre primarily to...hmm, preserve my ownership of the books I have given money to Amazon for (if, for example, Amazon should decide to pull another 1984.) I certainly don't need Calibre to use my Kindle, but I'm glad I have it.