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@ -731,6 +731,36 @@ Miscellaneous
:local:
Amazon is stopping email delivery of MOBI files?
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Amazon `have announced
<https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2022/05/03/amazon-dropping-mobi-support-on-send-to-kindle-apps/>`__
that they will stop accepting MOBI files emailed to ``@kindle.com`` email
addresses. You can instruct calibre to send EPUB instead of MOBI by going to
:guilabel:`Preferences->Sharing books by email` and then removing MOBI from the
list of formats to send your ``@kindle.com`` email address and adding EPUB
instead.
Note however, that Amazon's EPUB intake is very flawed, they will reject a
number of EPUB files that work everywhere else. In such cases you can try the
following trick:
1. Convert the EPUB file to MOBI
1. Then convert the MOBI file back to EPUB and send the resulting EPUB
This will remove all advanced formatting, embedded fonts, etc., but greatly
increase the chances of Amazon accepting the EPUB.
.. note:: If you were previously using email delivery of periodicals downloaded
by calibre, you will be better off sending those by USB cable or downloading
them from the calibre Content server via the Kindle's built-in browser.
However, if you want to continue email delivery you can try changing the
output format in Preferences->Behavior to EPUB, then calibre will download
the news in EPUB format. Whether Amazon will accept the EPUB or not is a
whole other question.
I want calibre to download news from my favorite news website.
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If you are reasonably proficient with computers, you can teach calibre to download news from any website of your choosing. To learn how to do this see :ref:`news`.