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https://support.microsoft.com/en-ae/help/4517840/microsoft-edge-download-an-epub-app-to-keep-reading
not sure about mobi (never heard of it) but when I download PDFs they are opened in the new Edge.
HotCakeX "not sure about mobi (never heard of it)"
MOBI is an eBook format now owned by Amazon. Amazon's eBook formats (AZW, AZW1, and AZW3) use the MOBI format but incorporate a proprietary DRM, and Kindle's newest format (KF8) is based on MOBI, also with a proprietary DRM. To my knowldge, EdgeClassic does not support MOBI, but I could be wrong.
- Oh okay, so another proprietary document type, just like XPS.
it's honestly their tactics, they create or own something proprietary and confuse users and make them use only specific software/devices (like Amazon kindle) to use their products, while the same product can be created in PDF and it's open standard.HotCakeX "Oh okay, so another proprietary document type, just like XPS."
Although Amazon now owns MOBI, MOBI is based on the Open eBook standard and is not itself proprietary. MOBI supports most Windows platforms, as well as Linux and MacOS, and depreciated OS's like Symbian, Blackberry and Palm. Mobi does not support Android natively, however.
Amazon Kindle's MOBI-based versions (AZW, AZW1, AZW3 and K8) are protected by a proprietary DRM, and that (not MOBI) is what makes Kindle books proprietary.
As an aside, Amazon has developed an ePub to MOBI converter, supporting port of ePub books to an unprotected MOBI format that can be read by the Kindle Reader, which is handy. I use a Kindle Reader, and have converted many ePub books to Kindle format over the years.
- Good stuff, why not choose PDF though when you want to go through the conversation process? at least you'll know you will have had a very compatible format in the end and won't have to worry whether it will be depreciated tomorrow or not.