News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format.

Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by leotaku on Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:21AM (#32422943)
This is great news! MOBI and especially KF8 (Amazon flavour of XHTML on MOBI) are horribly complex by virtue of them being additional layers over the PalmDB format, which on it's own is actually quite elegant.

I've spent quite some time on building a fully featured MOBI library[1]. A bit sad that my work will become obsolete this quickly, but definitely good in the long run.

[1]: https://github.com/leotaku/mobi

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by mariusor on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:39AM (#32423791)
I was just looking for a replacement library for go to build documents for the Kindle. I have a little service that converts RSS feeds articles into content for ebook readers and currently for them I was converting to mobi. It's great to see that there's an "easy" way to switch to AZW.
[ Parent | on HN ]