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Originally Posted by nickbogaty
In the .epub spec is the following which you correctly reference:
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The first file in the ZIP Container MUST be a file by the ASCII name of ‘mimetype’ which holds the MIME type for the ZIP Container (i.e., “application/epub+zip” as an ASCII string; no padding, white-space or case change). The file MUST be neither compressed nor encrypted and there MUST NOT be an extra field in its ZIP header.
Nick
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I find it interesting that of the five epub ebooks that I just downloaded from the Digital Editions site, four of them DO NOT contain the required "mimetype" file. Nevertheless, they display fine in Digital Editions and no errors are reported. Perhaps Adobe needs to check just how compliant Digital Editions is with the spec. If a REQUIRED component is missing, the software should at least make note of it somehow.
One of the five ebooks did show an error when viewing the book info, but no details were given. That one ebook was not displaying a cover page, so that was probably where the error was. I haven't looked at the source yet.