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Originally Posted by pdurrant
You would have thought so, wouldn't you? But that's not true. The different physical Kindles render Mobipocket files differently to each other, and Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac render them differently again.
It's really very disappointing.
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I don't care about small diffences. But if a mobi book is readable on my Kindle it is also readble on my wife's Bebook and our old Cybook.
That is not the case with ePub on the Bebook and the Cybook and my desktop. The horrible inplementations of ePub sometimes makes borders of 2 cm on one device and no borders at all on the other. Or one device has an indentation of one caracter at every paragraph while the other has something like half a line. Or an extra whilte line in between.
Or on one device everything looks OK while on the other al kinds of (inverted) ??? appear. Convert the file to mobi and most of your troubles are gone. Especially if you rip uit de CSS first.
I agrea that ePub is more sophisticated than Mobi. But everybody implements only 70% of the standard. And by preference an other 70% than the rest of the world.
The end result is that only 50% is common. That is why it looks often better if you rip out the CSS, then none of the fancy stuff that is rendered badly is available anymore.
Sigiel is only good for cutting a file in chapters, but that is something I have no need for unless the text of the file is OK.
Sometimes it works to convert the ePub with Calibre to RTF and edit all the fancy junk out with Word and the reconvert it.