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Old 10-22-2011, 02:22 AM   #7
lindsayw
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Originally Posted by dwig
Paper books, in recent decades have generally been poor to horrid on average. Only a modest percentage of early hard back editions are more readable than my Kindle.

The current ebook formats (ePub2 & AZW/MOBI7) are like a loaded revolver. They can be put to good use by someone with the right skill, but can do damage when handled by the unskilled (or clumsy robots like Meatgrinder). ePub3 and AZW/K8 will simply replace the revolver with an Uzi, more power to do more harm when handled by the unskilled.
Agree about recent pBooks, but that's more an economic issue... profit has evaporated from that business so corners are being cut.
Also, with the huge number of scanned eBooks (re-releases of pBooks) it's not just recent pBooks that are guilty of dreadful layout. Many just-released eBooks are positively riddled with dreadful (non-existant) layout and typos resulting from OCR, missing words, even whole sentences.
For the new K8, a slight improvement on ePub IF HANDLED CAREFULLY means that more people associated with ePublishing HAVE to learn how to do that! Otherwise K8 will just become K9, a dog of a format.
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