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Old 08-07-2010, 09:26 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton View Post
This has not been my experience, I'm afraid. Text including "<" characters and other computerese can confuse the converters - this happened to me with "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" where she's talking online, for example. The latest Dawkins also came out a mess - not sure what was going on there. The bolding and paragraphs were all over the place.

All I'm saying is that one shouldn't underestimate the hassle factor in getting to a readable epub from an Amazon purchase. Now the K3 is so cheap and they have a UK store, I'm signing up to the evil empire
I agree. The biggest problem in the couple of mobibooks I've tried has been masses of nested blockquotes which need to be unravelled to produce a properly compliant epub. I'm not sure if this is an issue with calibre since the nested blockquotes are present in the input html when using the debugging option. Personally, I think the problem really lies with disfunctionalities in the mobi format itself.

Still, if there's no epub reader with the new screen at a comparable price come Christmas I may find myself signing up as well.
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