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Originally Posted by dwig
EPUB's minuses: - It supports a very wide range of formatting options, many of which are not supported by other formats thereby causing the occasional poor formatting when converting to other formats when some EPUB function is not supported in the target format.
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That doesn't seem like much of a "minus." If I don't want to use an option, I don't use it. The minus is in the other format that won't support something supported in EPUB.
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MOBI's pluses:- Its a very popular format making the likelihood of future support very good.
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MOBI is extremely limited as a format. If you like it for that reason, perhaps you will like txt format even better.
I think Kovid's comments on why the Calibre User Manual is in EPUB, not MOBI sort of sums it up:
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I don't provide [the Calibre User Manual] as MOBI because MOBI is such a limited format that trying to write a sophisticated document like a User Manual in MOBI is pointless.
In other words, a conversion of the User Manual to MOBI would look like crap. And I do not want to provide official crap.
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If you have a decent EPUB format, save that. It's far more likely that format will survive long-term than MOBI, and it will preserve more of the formatting.