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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
....In MOBI it's impossible to have text and images side by side. (etc)
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I'm currently reading a book on Japanese poetry. Not really noticing any formatting problems at all.
The New Yorker has a poetry section which also formats fine in its Kindle edition (which I assume is MOBI).
I've read numerous books with lots of charts and tables, one with so many it drove me up a wall.
I've read several books with illustrations. Lack of text flow isn't bugging me at all, especially on a smaller Kindle screen.
MOBI may not be perfect. However, when Amazon was running its pilot programs for college textbook use, the complaints focused on issues with annotation -- not format. Most of the issues that really rotate my crank relate to editing and proofreading issues.
(And let's not forget Topaz. For better or worse, it addresses some issues like embedded fonts. Clearly Amazon is more interested in developing its own formats over adopting an open standard.)
Thus, as I said, so far as a non-programmer and non-editor, I'm not seeing issues that I can cogently attribute to limitations of the format.