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Originally Posted by ApK
That is, do charts, links, pictures, code sample, etc, look or work ANY differently in their ePub vs. their mobi versions?
ApK
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Talking specifically about the electronic format, same book, YES!. epub is richer internally, so it allows a better formatting for complex books, like those with charts, pictures, text around picture, etc.
Having said that, MOBI allows same rendering and you can read and publish the same book with little or no change. I sold my Nook because I was not able to find my MS-SQL, Oracle and technical books on B&N, so I changed to Kindle and it displays those technical books really good, I am really happy with the buy. I read those on my Kindle DXG, but they are still readable on my Kindle 3.
I saw a nice article in a blog, can't remember the site, where the user bought same book on 3 or 4 different formats. It was a book with complex layout. On your eyes, epub vs mobi look almost identical, but there were minor differences in terms of file size (epub was bigger) and picture resolution or size was slightly better on epub.
EDIT: I found the format comparison, can be found here
http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/sh...ad.php?t=45297