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Originally Posted by comet
1. Do producers of ereaders really implement their firmwares in such a manner that epubs conforming to the standards are surely displayed correct?
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Since there are e-books on the market which don't met the standard (see your No. 2
), firmware developers won't risk that those books can't be displayed on their readers. It would make their readers less favourable to the customer.
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Originally Posted by comet
2. If I test some ebooks from shops that sell them without DRM epubcheck also issued a lot of errors. So there is the question, how many epubs commercially sold are really formated according to the standards. (So that we will be able to read them using firmwares developed in 5 years ;-) )
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How should we know ? In most cases, we can't check. But if i see a "professional made" EPUB with an undistorted cover-image, i guess, the rest of the thing would never pass an epubcheck. The same is if there are too much typos...
Look around in the forums here ! A few days ago i stumbled over some queries from an epub-maker. From his questions i could see that he uses some kind of software to produce the book and his sole problem was the checking-software of the dealer. Finally he managed to pass the test somehow (I guess with some help frome here). You may buy the book by now for 6.95 EUR.