How to convert Plain text to MOBI
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Upload your file
Drag and drop a file or click to select one. Keep this page open while the file uploads and converts.
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Convert Plain text to MOBI
NexMedia converts Plain text to MOBI on its own servers. Processing time depends on the file size and how busy the queue is.
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Download the converted file
When the conversion finishes, the download appears on this page. Your converted file is kept for 2 hours, then deleted.
About Plain text
A plain text file contains only characters, usually encoded as UTF-8, with no formatting, images or chapters.
Notes, public-domain books such as those on Project Gutenberg, and any text a program needs to read.
Turning a book into plain text drops all formatting, images and tables.
Convert Plain text to MOBI online free, no account required — MOBI is the Mobipocket ebook format of early Kindles.
Change Plain text to MOBI without losing quality — convert Plain text to MOBI free in your browser.
Why does my TXT file lose all the bold, italics and headings from my document? Plain text stores characters and nothing else, so any styling has no place to live — a format like EPUB or PDF is needed to keep it.
About MOBI
MOBI is the Mobipocket ebook format, which Amazon acquired in 2005 and used for the first Kindles.
Older Kindle devices and ebook collections from before AZW3.
MOBI supports only basic formatting, and Amazon's Send to Kindle no longer accepts MOBI files.
Why convert an ebook to MOBI? For very old Kindles that predate EPUB support; anything modern reads EPUB or AZW3.
What changes when you convert Plain text to MOBI
- Ebook conversion is best-effort: the text, images and table of contents of the Plain text carry over to MOBI, but layout and styling can change.
- Fixed layouts, embedded fonts and complex styling in the Plain text may not survive the move to MOBI.
Settings you can change
Before you convert Plain text to MOBI, you can adjust: Title, Author, Language, Page size, Base font size, and Generate table of contents.
Limits
Each plan sets a maximum file size and a number of conversions per day, and video and audio files also have a maximum length. Guests can convert files up to 100 megabytes and 5 per day; a free account raises this to 500 megabytes and 25 per day; paid plans go up to 100 gigabytes.
Your converted MOBI file is kept for 2 hours, then deleted.
Plain text to MOBI: questions and answers
Does converting Plain text to MOBI reduce quality?
Ebook conversion is best-effort: the text, images and table of contents of the Plain text carry over to MOBI, but layout and styling can change.
What is the difference between Plain text and MOBI?
Plain text is unformatted plain text. MOBI is the Mobipocket ebook format of early Kindles.
Can I change the settings when converting Plain text to MOBI?
Before you convert Plain text to MOBI, you can adjust: Title, Author, Language, Page size, Base font size, and Generate table of contents.
Do I need an account to convert Plain text to MOBI?
No. You can convert Plain text to MOBI without an account; signing in raises the file-size and daily limits.
How long is my converted MOBI file kept?
The MOBI file you convert from Plain text is kept for 2 hours, then deleted automatically.
Will the page layout of my Plain text survive in the MOBI?
Fixed layouts, embedded fonts and complex styling in the Plain text may not survive the move to MOBI.
Will my MOBI look exactly like my Plain text?
Ebook conversion is best-effort: the text, images and table of contents of the Plain text carry over to MOBI, but layout and styling can change.