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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
As an end-user, non-programmer and non-publisher, I don't see any substantial difference due to format. If there is some "technical" advantage to epub, I'm not seeing it as even remotely relevant to my decisions as a consumer.
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Simple examples of differences that even an end user can appreciate:
In MOBI it's impossible to have text and images side by side.
In MOBI you cannot embed fonts which means it is completely unsuitable for mathematical/foreign language publications
In MOBI you cannot format poetry
In MOBI you cannot have multi-level Tables of Contents
In MOBI you cannot have images that look the same at all resolutions (scalable/vector images)
In MOBI it is impossible to have semantic content, which means for example that you cannot re-use the insert book jacket feature in calibre to convert metadata into a book jacket.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg.