Convert MOBI to PDF – Kindle Books, Any Device

MOBI Files Are Great on Kindle. Everywhere Else? Not So Much.

I love my Kindle. I've owned four of them over the years. But the MOBI format is Kindle-only. Try to open a MOBI file on a Windows laptop without installing anything – you can't. On a Mac? Nope. On your phone? Maybe if you have the Kindle app, but what if you don't want to use Amazon's ecosystem? What if you just want to print a recipe from a cookbook? What if you need to quote a passage in a paper and you want to copy-paste without weird formatting?

PDF fixes all of that. PDF is the great equalizer. Every computer, every phone, every tablet – they all have PDF readers. Some were built by Adobe, some were built by Apple, some were built by some guy in 1998 and they're still running on Windows XP. Doesn't matter. They open PDFs.

This converter takes your MOBI file and turns it into a clean, properly formatted PDF. I preserve the images. I keep the chapter headings. I even try to maintain the font choices where possible. You can choose portrait mode for novels, landscape for PDFs you'll read on a screen, or two-column layout for reference books and documentation (way more efficient for printing).

One thing to understand: MOBI is a reflowable format. Text moves, wraps, resizes. PDF is fixed. Every page is exactly the same on every device. That means I have to decide where page breaks go. I do my best to avoid widows and orphans, and I keep paragraphs together. It's not perfect for every book, but it's pretty good.

30MB limit. That's a 1200-page novel. If you've got the complete works of Dickens in one file, you might need to split it. Otherwise, you're fine. No sign-up, no cost, no watermark. Just your Kindle book, turned into a PDF that anyone can open.