[purcelljf]

I converted a pdf using ABBYY FineReader to a Microsoft Word doc because it does a good job of recognizing the footnotes and cross-referencing them. Also I find it easier to repair problem footnotes in Word than in Dreamweaver. Unfortunately upon saving it to html, Word uses a lot of tags and code I don't know or understand. Nonetheless, the test chapter I created and transferred to read in Stanza on my IPOD looks pretty good and the footnotes link and cross-link fine.

Here is my question. What is the disadvantage of creating this book as a Word HTML file? I know about the TOC feature in EPUBs which is nice, and I know about the ability to split html files into separate chapters and assign metadata to the epubs. But is there a performance hit in the time it takes to open and flip pages since the ebook is just in one file?

Thanks.