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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
What John was speaking about are the exclusivity deals made by amazon.
Mobi, even without drm, mobi are still mobi, and still can't be read on my e-reader.
Yeah, you can convert, but it works badly. I went looking at an epub, and though it was badly made, before seeing the "calibre", hinting at a converted book. "Oh, that why".
Don't get me wrong, calibre was a life savior on that one, but i will not convert unless forced onto it.
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Because of the way Mobipocket eBooks do not use CSS and all the code has to go inside the HTML before the eBook is made, it can lead to some pretty awful code. Calibre is only able to work with what it has. Garbage in, garbage out.
Older Mobipocket eBooks can be pretty abysmally coded. That's probably due to older versions of the Mobipocket software for creating eBooks.
Yes, I can convert eBooks and I have. But sometimes it's a lot of work to fix them up when the code from the Mobipocket original is a mess.
But the problem is not Calibre, it's the source.