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Originally Posted by lemon lime
 I'm baffled that this did not get 100% Yes. |
Standardized format doesn't mean the best reading experience. To make full use of some features of a reader, a modified book may be necessary.
Also, you must consider the real world. In a perfect world a standard format might work (I am not so sure about that, but let's assume it would for the sake of discussion), but we must deal with real-world situation. Including abilities and inabilities of various readers to render certain formats in a certain way. If all books were to be available only in EPUB format, for example, my reading experience would be drastically lowered because Sony's renderer is sub-par as far as I am concerned.
The problem is that this question is actually two questions - whether all e-books should have a standardized format, and whether they all should work on all devices.