Tallish_TomJan 16, 2023
Steve Wart

When I was looking for some e-book editions of classic texts, I discovered Standard EBooks https://standardebooks.org/

Especially if you're using a Kindle, the quality is so much better than if you download .mobi files from Gutenberg. It is an ancient format that doesn't provide good support for high quality text.

Read their Kindle FAQ for more details https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kindle-faq

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Jan 16, 2023 at 6:09pmWeb
Show threadSteve WartJan 16, 2023
“ There’s a newer version of the mobi ebook file format that can contain advanced formatting. But, if you use Kindle’s “Send to Kindle” feature, it silently removes that advanced formatting, turning the file you sent into an older mobi version that looks really bad. When that happens, we get the blame for a bad ebook, even though it was Kindle’s fault for quietly butchering our carefully produced file.”