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Originally Posted by Mastiff
What I do not do is to expect anybody to support the older file formats in anything.
....I'm guessing that you could have done quite a few conversions into a newer format or managed to find a format that would actually work in the time you have spent explaining your reasons here...  |
I don't
expect anyone to support older file formats - I
do think its perfectly acceptable to
ask that they
might consider supporting them for reasons given.
As I repeatedly said above, I have converted some books and expect that I will convert some more in the future but my experience of conversion was that it wasn't 100% fidelity and I've seen at least one other poster confirm that. Its the equivalent of using the MP3 codec rather than the flac codec in terms of conversion results. If the book convertors were perfect then we wouldn't be having this conversation.
To answer your last comment, I would argue that if a developer can spend a couple of hours adding the code necessary to support a new format AND that they are willing to do so, then if that saves me and hundreds of other people hours of effort converting books then this seems like a good net result. I've devoted the time debating this because I think there many people like me who would benefit from increased format support in CoolReader.
No-one is saying the developer
must do this but, just maybe, he would be willing to do it for the benefit of a lot of users of his application.