12-17-2011, 03:38 AM | #1 |
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KF8 Demo
Here's a blot post with some interesting info about KF8:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...now-available/ Anybody here been playing with it? |
12-20-2011, 12:37 AM | #2 |
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Well, I at least thought that was interesting, also.
But I'd really like to see the new tools, an in particular, how these handle degradation to what we previously thought of as 'mobi'. I can see where we'll usually get a good, more or less lossless KF8 conversion from most ePub filies, but the conversion ePub to mobi that the tools currently do is not fully adequate (not that it prevents some big publishers from using it, rather than deriving mobi source files). Even downgrading from 'native' KF8 source to 'legacy' mobi seems like it would be problematic, unless there's some provision to include legacy source in parallel. I think 'legacy' devices will experience some loss of quality as a result. And I'm assuming the cutoff will be K4 and later, i.e. Kindle Keyboard will not get KF8 capabilities. Hope I'm wrong about that. |
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Let's say it works on these models. What would it offer when reading a novel such as "Animal Farm"?
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12-20-2011, 04:24 AM | #4 |
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Probably the same kind of things that can be used to "pretty up" an ePub book, such as drop caps, text flowing around illustrations, embedded fonts, etc. None of these is essential, but they can certainly make a book look much more attractive.
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12-20-2011, 04:51 AM | #5 |
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Thanks. Sounds like it's nothing I need for the type of reading I do.
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I don't like the sound of embedded fonts. Even in real books there's a lot of designers who don't have a clue about typography, that's likely to get even worse when amateur designers are doing cut-price ebook work for starving writers.
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In other words, I don't expect there to be much of a need to convert KF8 to mobi. |
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This is currently the case with a/v enhanced ebooks: if you send to anything other than the K4iOS app, you only get the text. The a/v content is stripped out. It is an open question as to how 3rd parties can make Kindle content available. They may need to have mobi AND kf8 format available. |
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12-20-2011, 01:14 PM | #11 |
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You can open those KF8 files with 7zip.
From the files within it looks very similar to epub. |
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But having said that... are you sure? I'm unable to unzip either of the KF8 sample files from that blog post. With 7zip or ANY such program |
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Using 7zip 9.2 i just right clicked on Jerome.mobi and did open archive.
Though it could be the source epub files, but why would you include that in the final file? |
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ok i compared it with the source file that he used to create them and they include the same files.
If that holds true for the final kf8 files... |
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Those samples are the raw output from a beta version of the upcoming kindlegen program. Quote:
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