No matter how hard competitors try, Kindle e-readers remain among the most popular in the world. A major factor in this is their seamless integration with Amazon’s vast library of e-books, making it incredibly convenient for users to buy and read books directly from the platform.
However, there has always been one frustrating limitation—Kindle devices have traditionally supported a very restricted set of formats. If we exclude image files, Kindles could only handle TXT, Microsoft Word documents (DOC), and Amazon’s proprietary e-book format, commonly known as MOBI (with file extensions like .azw or .mobi, depending on the version). This is where competitors have tried to outdo Amazon by offering support for a wide variety of formats. But in reality, do we even need an excessive number of formats?
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