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MOBI
Mobipocket
MOBI is the old Kindle format, retired by Amazon in 2022 in favour of KFX and EPUB. Existing MOBI libraries still need converting to be read anywhere current.
- Extensions
- .mobi .prc
- MIME type
- application/x-mobipocket-ebook
01 Convert MOBI to something else
03 Related formats
Opening a .mobi file
If you landed here because something handed you a .mobi file and
nothing on your machine will open it, converting it to a format you already have a
reader for is usually faster than installing new software. Every conversion above runs
in this browser — the file is not uploaded, so it works on a locked-down work machine
and on a file you are not allowed to send anywhere.