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Old 10-05-2011, 02:36 PM   #690
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
surely, if sony store or other epub retailers carry the same e-books at same or similar prices, then there is no need to buy from B&N, so let your wallet do the talking & boycott the B&N ebook store.
You miss the point completely.

Lock-in is bad for consumers, completely and totally. It only serves the booksellers and publishers. In general once someone buys a Nook, they buy from B&N. Once they buy a Kindle, they buy from Amazon, and so on. Great for retailers, but book we don't see competition in book pricing (great for publishers).

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and as for "could buy from amazon & strip DRM but hate calibre EPub conversion" - sorry but that's just ill-informed garbage. the epub output looks exactly like tte mobi input , unless you've badly screwed up calibre settings.
You have obviously never looked at the ePUB generated by Calibre. I don't mean the book but the actual uncompressed ePUB files.

They are a mess in terms of human readability, and this makes editing them a hundred times harder when you want to add a feature Calibre doesn't provide. Also, they generally do not pass epubcheck. There is nothing ill-informed about this. I look at Calibre-generated ePUBs all the time, and they are generally the worse ePUBs I see.

Before you tell someone they're ill-informed, I recommend you take a bit of time and doing some research on your own.

Sheesh.

All this said, most people using Calibre don't care about the internals. They just care about the end results. That's fine. And Calibre developers had to make many decisions based on ePUB limitations, like the need to break up files due to size restrictions. I don't blame the developers for that... though inserting a few more (okay, a lot more) newlines wouldn't hurt... and how about eliminating over-ridden (unused) CSS tags! Even then, I understand a simple ePUB is difficult to generate programatically, and I am not developing Calibre so I am not here to look a gift horse in the mouth. It generates fairly awful ePUB internals, but that is the nature of the beast.

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