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Old 07-25-2011, 02:43 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
and tons of other public domain books are not only illustrated, but the illustrations are part of the reason these books are classics. The mobi file format doesn't reproduce these books very well.
I've never noticed a difference. Mobi seems to do images quite well enough for the portable reading devices for which these books appear to be intended.

From a practical point of view, most books today will be formatted to look pretty much the same in either format, Kindle still being the most popular reader, so I doubt anyone would go to the trouble of publishing distinctly different versions for epub and mobi. Publishers tend create with the common, and easily inter-convertable, features in mind.

As an owner of both an epub and a mobi reader, however, if you happen to have any examples of epubs that highlight something epub can do over mobi, that is of any practical value to the reader , I would be curious to see it. Otherwise the differences seem to be academic, or limited to a tiny niche of the market at best.

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