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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Mobi isn't the only one. eReader suffers a similar handicap.
I read Mobi files on a Palm OS PDA with a 200 mhz CPU and 128MB of RAM. Maybe Mobi could support ePub directly on the device, and maybe not. Same for eReader. And what about folks using Symbian based smartphones, or something like the Blackberry with a Java based setup?
Direct support of ePub would be problematic, and I really can't see conversion from ePub to native format on the device.
This is another reason why I think ePub has a better chance as an intermediate format used by publishers, which can be converted to the format the reader will use.
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Dennis
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I agree. There are lots of devices that are going to be strained to fully support ePUB. I only used Mobipocket because they have already done it this way and they did the same thing with the earlier OEB standard. It also points out that it has already been done contrary to what was stated in this thread.
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What extra work? The effort is up front. Once the infrastructure is in place, things happen automatically.
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I guess you never worked in IT. There is always changes to deal with in software. It is never just automatic and then forget it. New versions have to be tested and integrated. Workarounds have to be revised. Source documents may even need changing.
Dale