I wonder if this applies to previous Kindle books or just to books that are
coming out from now on.
Mary
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On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:48 PM, William Brandes <williambrandes@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
hi all. an interesting read for those that use kindle for pc and/or
conversions using codex. i did a copy and paste. below.
Kindle for PC
Kindle for PC allows you to manage your e-book collection and read any
of the titles you have purchased on your home computer or tablet.
Amazon has just issued a monumental update that includes typesetting
enhancements, search improvements, and a text-to-speech feature which
allows the app to read some e-Books aloud to you.
All of these new updates were made possible because Amazon no longer
delivers e-books into your account with the AZW format, instead they
are now sent in KFX.
There is lots of conjecture about the KFX e-book format, simply
because it came out in 2016. One of the biggest factors is that it is
digitally encrypted and nobody has managed to crack the DRM system,
which prevents piracy. The KFX format is also “pre-rendered” to some
extent, such as having hyphenation pre calculated and added to the
text as either soft-hyphens or html tags. This is similar to what Kobo
does with kepub. This allows Amazon to push out their new Ember and
Bookerly formats and to make e-books like way better than with
Caecilia.
stay well ... william
