[rptr_87]

Why doesn't kindle support epub out of the box. Is there a some reason for it?. It seem to support mobi out of the box though.

Epub seems to be present everywhere and I always need to convert it to mobi/azw3 while uploading...

[lawlorino]

> Why doesn't kindle support epub out of the box.

Almost definitely money. Amazon want you locked into their ecosystem as much as possible.

[muro]

I put all my books on my Kindle through Calibre - couldn't care less about the format.

[techer]

Rename it png and email it.

[e12e]

Seriously? I can't tell if this is a joke or not.

But you do bring up an interesting point - I'd forgotten about ingestion via email. Worst case I suppose one might construct a pipeline that does conversion from epub to mobi and emails the result.

Is there a limit to the size of the library I wonder?

[wibble10]

You can send epub to your send to kindle email address with the word “convert” in the subject line and it’ll transform it into a mobi... as far as I know..

Edit: apparently you need to change the extension to .zip for it to work shrug

[deegles]

It works, you can also use the Send to Kindle app (which is barebones but gets the job done).