Thread: Ben Bova's THE EXILES TRILOGY - on 99cent special for a very short time
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Old 03-29-2012, 12:07 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post
Long story short: the Mobipocket format is not only proprietary and poorly documented, it's also very limited in its display features and functionality (no right-hand margins! text can't wrap around pictures and must start on a new line below! images size limited to 128kb which often results in nasty pixelated downconversion for maps in the front of fantasy novels!) in a way that reduces a lot of books to a very low typographical level of simple text display.
This remains a little off-topic and I ask for interest sake, but does the latest Kindle format address some of these concerns?

I'm interested because the Kindle is my main device so I would be curious what advantages I might get when books published to Amazon start to be in this new format and when an appropriate conversion plugin from epub to the new Kindle format might make an appearence in Calibre.
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