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Originally Posted by DaleDe
It is a chicken and egg thing. one has to come first and I think the standard should come first with people using it as approved rather than waiting until something dominates because there happens to be nothing better at the moment and you are stuck with something only one company decided was best for whatever reason. YMMV
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Agreed, and the ePub eggs might hatch into a flock of chickens. If it becomes widely adopted, fine by me. It seems to have all the pieces required to support creation of good ebooks.
But right now, my basic question is "Is the book I want available as an ebook, and if it is, is it available in a widely supported format I can read on whatever I happen to have handy?" I want to download content once, and read it on whatever I have at hand, so anything that restricts what I can use to read it loses.
Right now, I like MobiPocket format, simply because I can read it on what I have. When there are ePub readers for a broad range of devices, and ePub format books to read on them, that will change.
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Dennis