Mobi format was invented by the French company Mobipocket and was originally used as an ebook format for their MobiPocket Reader application. The company was aquired by Amazon in 2005 and since then mobi format has been used in Amazon's Kindle. The Amazon's eBook formats, including .azw, .azw1, and .azw3, use the MOBI format but incorporate a proprietary DRM scheme to prevent unauthorized users from viewing or copying an eBook that is contained in the MOBI file. Mobi files usually have .mobi extension, or they may have .prc or .pdb extension as the format was originally designed for Palm Pilot PDAs. The extension can be changed by the user to either of the accepted forms.
MOBI files support things like bookmarking, JavaScript, frames, and adding notes and corrections. They are supported by various eReaders, tablets, PDAs, and desktop computer applications. If you own a Kindle device you can read the mobi files on the Kindle device with perfect reading experience. But have you wondered what programs can open mobi files on your computer if you don’t have a Kindle device or other supported eReaders? Luckily you’ll be introduced the 4 best MOBI readers for Windows in this article. You can enjoy the best possible mobi reading effect with these programs installed on your PC. Messages app on mac database is being upgraded.
Kindle for PC (1.19.1 and above)
Amazon's Kindle for PC is a free e-book reader and manager for Windows PCs. You can read e-books, manage your library and collections, and shop for new titles, just like you can with your handheld Kindle device, only in a layout optimized for Windows. With the Amazon Kindle app installed, you can get the best reading experience available on your PC. It automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync. You’re able to create new highlights, notes, and bookmarks and manage those created on your Kindle. Full screen reading view, color modes, and brightness controls offer an immersive reading experience. Besides reading MOBI files on the app, it also supports the new AZW4 format used for textbooks. Apart from reading ebooks on Kindle for PC, you can also shop for books among over 400,000 books available in the Kindle Store.
Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin is a Windows only addon which provides the following accessibility features: text-to-speech reading, voice-guided menu navigation, large font sizes, high contrast reading mode, keyboard navigation, and accessible shortcuts. In order to use the text-to-speech feature, an external screen reader program must be installed and running on the Windows PC. Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin is compatible with Microsoft Narrator, JAWS and NVDA. The latest version of Kindle for PC (1.91 and above) integrates the accessibility plugin and supports screen readers and text-to-speech.
CONs of the app: the content column in the left sidebar cannot be folded; all open files will be copied to Kindle content directory; epub files are not supported.
Book Bazaar Reader for WIN 8 & WIN 10
Book Bazaar Reader is a full feature eBook Reader app for Windows 8 and Windows 10. After trying plenty of Mobi Readers for Windows, I settle on Book Bazaar Reader. Personally I like this app most because it gives me the best reading experience on Windows. You can read ebooks in EPUB, MOBI, FB2, PDF, TXT formats with Book Bazaar Reader. Thousands of free books from multiple sources of open publications, such as Guttenberg, Flibusta, FeedBooks, FreeBooks, ManyBooks, etc. are available for downloading. You can import books from local files and by direct web URLs.
It offers great reading experience custom fonts, nice page turning experiences, and high performance with big book formatting, rotating and resizing. Margins and line spacing can be adjusted. Day reading mode and night reading mode are selectable.
Book library organizer allows with different ways of sorting and grouping (by authors, genres, titles, sizes, publishing time, download time). Most recently read books are easily available using 'I am reading' list.
It allows for the reader to set bookmarks, highlight pieces of text with different colors and add notes. You can copy and share individual highlights and quotes as well as the whole collection of marks from a book. Also you’ll like how it treats PDFs nearly the same as MOBI files in that it pulls the cover page as the book's icon.
Cons of the app: Ads are inserted in the free version of the app; missing dictionary look up feature.
