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Originally Posted by HarryT
But what format would you regard as "better" than Mobi, Kovid?
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Assuming you don't mind others than Kovid answering...
I definitely consider EPUB an exceptionally good format, and wrote my reasons for so thinking in
a post on another thead. Versus Mobipocket in particular, EPUB supports fixed-width fonts, effectively unconstrained image filesizes (<10MB in ADE), and arbitrarily complex vector graphics. But my biggest gribe with Mobipocket is it's proprietary presentational markup. It produces problems on both the content generation and display end.
On the generation end, publishers are not creating Mobipocket's markup directly, but generating it with tools which accept HTML+CSS (OEBPS/OPS) and produce Mobipocket-compatible HTML. Such conversion introduces the possibility of bugs, and I have multiple Mobipocket books where the intent of the source markup is clear despite the particular structure of the generated markup resulting in a different rendering.
On the display end, the use of proprietary markup makes it difficult to identically display Mobipocket markup. Adhering to no published standard, the "correct" way to display Mobipocket markup is how ever the viewers written by Mobipocket display it. This makes future accurate rendering of texts currently in Mobipocket questionable.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's a lot of hype around at the moment about EPUB, but it seems to be distinctly "broken" at the moment on the Sony Reader, with a maximum size limit of the length of text that it will handle.
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(a) The limitation is not in total book-length, but in "chapter" length, which involves a perhaps arbitrary page-break at the "chapter" transition. (b) This is most definitely not a limitation of EPUB itself, but of the Adobe DE reader on the Reader.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
What formats other than Mobi support dictionary lookup? That's very important to me.
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None, but any
could with the necessary software & interface in place. If you mean what format other than Mobipocket supports dictionary-lookup into a book, then yeah -- only Mobi AFAIK.