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Originally Posted by EatingPie
You miss the point completely. (1)
You have obviously never looked at the ePUB generated by Calibre. I don't mean the book but the actual uncompressed ePUB files.(2)
-Pie
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1. lock in is bad - completely agree, solution is to boycott those retailers who are the worst offenders, + learn how to liberate your own books. Anyway B&N DRM is just as easy to bypass as other flavors!
2. yes i have, I buy lots of retail mobi from amazon, strip DRM & convert with calibre for my sony reader. & fine tune with Sigil. so I know exactly what an epub conversion by calibre looks like - it is very fit for purpose, and easy to fine-tune.
that's why calibre is by far the most used conversion program.
AND its output files pass all the built in checks that sigil offers
so don't pre-judge - go learn how to use calibre preferences!
calibre does an excellent job IMHO, and in the opinon of 1000s of its other users; if you can do better then bring YOUR program to market!
specifically - you want to buy from B&N + read on sony - no
conversion is needed, just remove the DRM - conversion is only needed if you buy .mobi from amazon to read on an epub device such as Sony/Kobo/Nook, & calibre handles that very well IMHO
one reason I bought sony is that it wants to sell great hardware, not crap-at-a-loss to lock me into their bookstore ( & that's why I got rid of my Kobo device , & why I won't be buying a K4)