MOBI
Kindle e-book
MOBI is the e-book format older Kindles used. Amazon stopped accepting MOBI through Send to Kindle in 2022 in favour of EPUB, so it is now mostly found in old libraries.
Opens in Older Kindles and Calibre
MOBI converterMOBI to TXT converter, without the upload.
Turn MOBI e-books into TXT. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop MOBI files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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- On your device · nothing is uploaded
- No account, no email
- Batch and ZIP download
- Free
- TXT: DRM books can't be converted
How to convert MOBI to TXT
Add your MOBI e-books
Drop MOBI files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
TXT is already chosen
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Download
Save the TXT, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
Why ToAny
Private by construction
The MOBI to TXT converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your e-books are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No upload, no queue
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
Free, without an account
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
MOBI to TXT: what to expect
MOBI is no longer accepted by Send to Kindle and is not opened by other e-readers. Plain text opens on every device and is easy to search or paste elsewhere. MOBI is at home in Kindles too old for newer formats; TXT is the usual choice for notes, logs and text that must be read by anything.
Both the older Mobi format and the newer KF8 (AZW3) are read, with the chapters in order and the pictures embedded; a book bought from the Kindle store with Amazon copy protection (DRM) is refused because its text cannot be read.
MOBI vs TXT
TXT
Plain text
A TXT file is characters and nothing else: no fonts, no images, no layout. That makes it the most portable document there is, and the easiest to search, diff or feed into another program.
Opens in Every device and every text editor
TXT converter| MOBIKindle e-book | TXTPlain text | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Mobipocket | Plain text |
| Type | Reflowable e-book | Unformatted text |
| Compression | PalmDOC or Huffman | None |
| Introduced | 2000, by Mobipocket (bought by Amazon in 2005) | The 1960s, by no single author |
| Opens in | Older Kindles and Calibre | Every device and every text editor |
| Best for | Kindles too old for newer formats | Notes, logs and text that must be read by anything |
| File extension | .mobi, .prc | .txt, .text, .log |
Questions
Are my e-books uploaded anywhere?
No. The MOBI to TXT conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Is anything lost when converting MOBI to TXT?
Text is kept. Formatting carries over only as far as TXT supports it.
Can I convert several MOBI files at once?
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
How do I convert MOBI to TXT on Windows, Mac, iPhone or Android?
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the MOBI file, press Convert and save the TXT. There is nothing to install.
Is there a file size limit?
Yes. Files up to 150 MB are accepted; a larger one is refused with a message. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.