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Originally Posted by jbenny
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.
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I believe the issue here is simply the eBooks Adobe posted on the Digital Editions site in May or so were created prior to the completion (but in anticipation of...based on draft specs) of the IDPF specs (OPS, OPF & OCF). As a result, there are inconsistencies because the specs changed a bit based on public review etc. I realize that this causes confusion aka your note above and I'll ask the Adobe folks responsible to post valid .epub files in place of the existing.
-Nick