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Old 04-01-2011, 11:28 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by Ortep View Post
The problem is that you can correct spelling errors etc in the book view. That is definately WYSIWYG. The problem comes when the file is crappy. There is no easy way to say: Lets remove al indents, or please create a blank line after each paragraph, or remove it or find all bottom margins at the end of a page.
This is trivial to do by manipulating css for the vast majority of books... Calibre does have a variety of ways to fix common things along these lines that are screwed up as well during conversion.


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Or that is complete on the Bebook, but misses parts from each long chapter on the Cybook because it has not enough memory to show a complete chapter. This last 'problem' was solved with Mobi more than 5 years ago. Simply read in what you can en pick up the next part when ready. There is no reason at all why it is not implemented in ePub readers. But nobody does
The reason no-one does it is because epub uses CSS 2.1, which requires the whole xml tree to be in memory. Mobi predates that with a much simpler format based on html 3.2. This is a big part of why a lot more formatting control is possible via epub. You can read this thread for a much more detailed discussion:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...t=49363&page=2

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