MOBI to Text & Word extracts the text of a Kindle ebook so you can edit, quote, translate or analyze it. Drop in a DRM-free .mobi, .azw3, .azw or .prc file and choose the output: plain text (.txt) that opens anywhere, Markdown (.md) that keeps headings, lists and quotes readable, or a Word document (.docx) with real headings, paragraphs and, if you like, the images from the book. You can choose exactly which chapters to include, add chapter titles, preview the result, copy it to the clipboard, or download the file, and the word count of your selection is shown as you go. Both the older MOBI format and the KF8 format used in AZW3 files are supported, and the output is always UTF-8 so accented letters and non-Latin scripts stay intact. The book is processed in your browser and never uploaded. For a print-ready copy use MOBI to PDF Converter, to read the book use MOBI Reader, and to estimate the page count of the extracted text try Words to Pages Converter.
Opening a MOBI file in a text editor shows nothing useful, because the text inside is compressed in 4096-byte blocks and mixed with binary headers, index tables and image records. Getting clean text out means decompressing those blocks, rebuilding the HTML of each chapter, and then turning that HTML into text with sensible paragraph breaks. Plain text is the most portable result and suits search, translation tools, text analysis and screen readers. Markdown keeps more structure, with headings marked by hash signs and quotes by a leading angle bracket, which makes it a good starting point for editing a book in a writing app or publishing it on the web. A Word document is the right choice when the text needs editing or commenting by people used to office software, because chapter titles become real headings that appear in the navigation pane. Images only make sense in the Word output, so plain text and Markdown leave them out. Whatever the format, the result is UTF-8, so accented letters, Cyrillic, Greek and other scripts survive even when the original MOBI was written in the older Windows-1252 encoding.