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Old 11-07-2010, 08:53 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by JeremyR View Post
Beyond that, having to convert is another step. Sure, it only takes a couple minutes in Calibre. But after a few hundred books, it adds up.

So does the file size. I guess epub uses a better compression, they are usually only about 70% of the size of a mobi file. Again, not an issue on a case by case basis, but after awhile it adds up.

And simply working with epub is a lot better than mobi. Spot a typo in an epub? Fire up sigil and fix it. There's nothing like that for mobi.
Well, but e-books are such small files anyway--sure 70% of {almost nothing} is smaller than {almost nothing}, but does it really matter?

I *would* like to be able to fix typos and stuff, though.
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