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Originally Posted by Redcard
What SLIS asked was, if they don't want to read EPUB3 books fully, but instead focus on a subset, why not just write a reader that reads EPUB3 books but only supports the subset.
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Not exactly. This isn't about reading books but about writing them. It's not like there are thousands of epub3 books out there waiting for a reader.
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Originally Posted by Redcard
The problem with that logic is, according to the EPUB3 specifications, you must do all or nothing.
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And those specifications were written in part by Apple.
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Originally Posted by Redcard
People would be equally complaining if they broke the standard and implemented their own "Epub 2.5"
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Why isn't there an epub2.5 standard? They started working on epub3 almost 2 years ago. I would ask why none of them figured out that epub3 was too much to handle, but some obviously did (hint, hint, it was Apple).