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Old 09-26-2010, 05:26 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by EowynCarter View Post
Well, ePub rendering on the cybook is right now, better then sony's. At least bookeen know the meaning of justified !
Amazon can't use a decent e-book format. (mobi is quite limited compared to what ePub can do).

Why, because amazon and sony are the big ones, they are necessarily be better ?

Unless you're really lucky, there's no perfect reader. It's all about compromises.
In edge case, pocketbook seams the way to go. prc support for old files, ePub support to buy new books, dictionary support. There, pocketbook is the only one offering all this, and that make pocketbook better for edge oh, and remember, mobi support on pocketbook is drm-free only.
I've got hundreds of mobi drm-free files on my Kindle, you know.

And I've got a Cybook and a Sony 600 (and a 300, and I've just purchased a 350, too), and I can't see how ePUBs could be better on Cybook.

And believe me, ePUB is NOT better than mobipocket. On the contrary, I think quite the opposite.

I own a small ebook publishing firm, and I "make" my ebooks on my own. My ebooks are in mobi, epub and pdf formats and I think ePUB format is really primitive and incomplete: you can't even make letters in small capitals (in mobi you can).

The only reason of ePUB's very same existence is that mobi format is owned by Amazon. Nothing more, nothing less.
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