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Old 08-11-2011, 07:29 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Lazybones View Post
I've long advocated for Kindle being as open as possible in terms of formats, but to be honest I've gotten so used to converting to mobi using Calibre and formatting my own books with the MobiCreator that it really would hardly make a difference to me now. Most of the books I buy are from Amazon anyway, or smaller sites like Smashwords that produce in multiple formats.
Conversion usually works fine, but occasionally I get converted mobis where the indents/margins are all messed up and I have to manually edit the stylesheet or even all the *.HTML files to fix. PitA.

I want mobi to go away because I suspect right now publishers are all targeting the lowest common denominator, ie mobi, in order to simplify and save money. It'd be like all web sites were still targeting IE3. ePub ain't the be all and end all; it's just the better of the two and what we have now.

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