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File format survey - .mobi
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File format survey - .mobi

Project Gutenberg offers 7 ebook formats (like HTML, EPUB, and MOBI) and plans to add PDF and KEPUB. MOBI was Amazon's early proprietary format for Kindles, which later evolved into KF8. In response, the publishing industry created EPUB, an open format that Amazon eventually accepted.

New Kindles now require EPUB3 files via the "Send-to-Kindle" service, causing MOBI usage to decline. However, PG wants to keep supporting readers with older Kindle devices. We are hosting a two-question survey to see if users still need them to provide MOBI files.

https://forms.gle/nU4cREmuxdHAHEQc6

(The Google Form may ask you to sign in.)

u/ProjectGutenberg — 1 day ago
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Gopher server sunseting

In order to streamline our server setup and keep within our budget, we will be shutting down the gopher service at gopher.pglaf.org in the next few weeks.

Note that no files are being removed, this is simply removing the port 70 service that has seen next to zero traffic for a decade.

For those of you who are interested to take one last look, Floodgap has a proxy service you can use: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopher.pglaf.org%2F

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