Jetbook, which is the preferred format? - Page 2

DaleDe · 03-08-2012, 08:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lorenzoens

I see you have a real passion for Amazon's products, from your readers to your blog.

Isn't it true that ePub is the standard?

Are you aware of all the formatting you can do with ePub and cannot do with Mobi? Did you ever notice the difference in embedding images between the two formats?
I'm no expert on this, but it's not that difficult to list all the differencies.

Mobipocket Reader for PC is completely outdated, the company has been acquired long time ago and the software remained where it's been left.

And why all the world should remain connected to a format like Mobi? Amazon itself is going to drop it sooner or later

For DRM reasons they are not likely to drop it totally. KF8 used on the Kindle File is really epub inside but it is still packaged in a PDB (Palm Data Base) container. Check our wiki for details. They also package PDF in a PDB container for DRM purposes.

Dale

LuBiB · 03-08-2012, 10:57 PM

PDF all the way.

The only thing my professors hand out are PDFs and without the jetBook Color i would be stuck in limbo with papers needing to be filed!

mod186k1 · 03-09-2012, 07:31 AM

Preferred format for JBC? It depends in general. Anyway Jetbook Color support almost all formats. I bought 9.68 for PDF mostly that are very difficult to read on a 6" screen.

ePubs always are preferable but for a e-book which born in ePub format: sopport of link, native (and perfect) reflow, changable style and fonts via CSS, etc. The conversion from PDF is possible but according with my experience is not recommended if document is not text-only (eg. romance) because the original layout often is important and you'll lost it after the conversion. In this case the best is to optimize original PDF with a tool like briss or pdfshuffler and put it on the device: for few particular cases you can use the reflow feature provided by Jetbook Color, if actually you need it.

bye

AM

03-09-2012, 07:31 AM	#18
mod186k1 Addict Posts: 233 Karma: 256666 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Italy Device: iLiad, PRS-T3, Kobo GLO HD, Paperwhite 2, PB Ultra, Ony Boox Max	Preferred format for JBC? It depends in general. Anyway Jetbook Color support almost all formats. I bought 9.68 for PDF mostly that are very difficult to read on a 6" screen. ePubs always are preferable but for a e-book which born in ePub format: sopport of link, native (and perfect) reflow, changable style and fonts via CSS, etc. The conversion from PDF is possible but according with my experience is not recommended if document is not text-only (eg. romance) because the original layout often is important and you'll lost it after the conversion. In this case the best is to optimize original PDF with a tool like briss or pdfshuffler and put it on the device: for few particular cases you can use the reflow feature provided by Jetbook Color, if actually you need it. bye AM Last edited by mod186k1; 03-09-2012 at 07:34 AM.

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LuBiB Banned Posts: 349 Karma: 1018593 Join Date: May 2009 Location: New York Device: jetBook, iPhone, JETBOOK COLOR!!	PDF all the way. The only thing my professors hand out are PDFs and without the jetBook Color i would be stuck in limbo with papers needing to be filed!

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