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Originally Posted by sovre
I'm just curious what are the differences (not so much technically, but as a reader would experience them) between epub and rtf?
I have a lot of rtf files, and I'm in the habit of converting them to epub to use them with Stanza. But the Sony eReader can recognize rtf as well as epub--would there be any compelling reason to convert to epub in this case?
The one thing I have noticed is that my converted epub files tend to be smaller than the original rtf.
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Yes, the epub is compressed while the RTF is only an ascii file with images shown in base64 most likely. ePUB is definitely more sophisticated format and can be edited in Sigil. ePUB will likely load faster. You can add TOC and metadata to the ePUB while this may or may not be present in your RTF and it is not likely to be available for viewing even if in the file. You can read about RTF in the wiki and ePUB too for that matter.
Dale