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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ...
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tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> wrote:
[...]
> But if I try to do a file download of a .mobi file from an author's web
> page, or an .azw file from Amazon.com, using either Browser or Opera Mini,
> the Downloader balks, claiming the file is one it doesn't know how to
> handle. Means even the <user>@kindle.com email attachment way of sending a
> .mobi file to my phone's Kindle app fails, because the attachment never
> downloads. 

  What is this "the Downloader" thing you talk about?

  What you seem to describe would mean that you would not be able to
download a file, any file, which no (installed) app can 'Open', but
which would be quite useful. I.e. a configuration file, a file which is
*used* by and app, but is not *'Open'-ed* by an app.

  IOW, there are lots of files which are not 'Open'ed, but which are
used in some shape of form. Your 'Browser' would not be able to
*download* such a file? Why on earth not? It has no business thinking
the file needs to be 'Open'-ed!

  Can you give an exmple (i.e. URL) of such a (freely downloadable)
file, which your 'Browser'/'Downloader' can't download?

<drift>

> So I'm reduced to the very 20th century solution of sneaker-netting the
> microSD card out of the phone and into a computer to DL the desired
> eBook(s), and than back into the phone to move it/them over to the
> handset's memory where the Kindle app expects to find such things.

  Can't you USB-connect the Android device to your computer or use a
Wi-Fi connection with something such as ES File Explorer?

</drift>

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