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Originally Posted by AdrianM
I'm suffering a little from buyers remorse after seeing the new Kindle.
I just ordered (yesterday, believe it or not!) a Nook (and a cool Oberon cover to go with it). I decided on the Nook because it ticked a lot of the boxes I had as a list of requirements but primarily because it supports the ePub format and I didn't want to be tied to the propriety Mobi format on the Kindle.
But now, after seeing the new Kindle with it's small form factor, new pearl screen and extended battery life, I have to say that I'm wondering if made a mistake and I should get one of them instead. But how good is the ePub to Mobi conversion in Calibre really? Does it ever fail or mess up the formatting badly often/sometimes/never?
As far as I can tell, the new Kindle is supported quite well in Norway now so it won't be an issue for new book purchases but I have a lot of ePub books and if they couldn't be converted properly it'd be very annoyed to say the least.
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Both epub and mobi and reflow formats, meaning they just present the data to the device/reader and the device displays it as it sees fit. Its not positional like PDF or Doc files.
Is the conversion 1:1?, no it will never be. It is reasonable enough so you can read the book? yes it is.
I rent all my books via overdrive and they are all epub, but I put them on my kindle and for the most part they work well.
The nook for me is just to bug and clunky. Plus I like Amazon as a company. B&N not so much, but they arent the worst. I much prefer Borders as a bookstore.
Anyway, why don't ya just buy both and try them out, The kindle has a great return policy. Im not sure of the nooks return policy. So you may want to check that out.
Here is a example picture [Epub on left, mobi on right] in the calibre viewer
As you can see there are are formatting differences in this novel by Sedaris, but its all still readable and you will get the same exact format distortion when you resize text on your reader.