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Originally Posted by ATDrake
And Topaz does have certain very limited advantages, in that done well, it can preserve and present a more complex typographical layout than Amazon's Mobipocket format is capable of. This can be important for poetry books, and illustrated ones with the pictures supposed to show at a particular point in the text.
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Agreed.
I have purchased one or two ebooks that I actually
wished they had used the Topaz format. One in particular had an invented language (with symbols and accents) that couldn't be represented with standard fonts. The mobi version inserted those phrases as inline images that were vastly larger, fainter, and not even close to being vertically aligned with the surrounding text. The epub of the same book was slightly better -- but still atrocious -- and just distracted me horribly during my reading. I returned the ebook(s) and bought the print version instead.
I would have purchased a Topaz version of that ebook in a heartbeat, were one available.