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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Frankly, I don't see what the big deal is with a couple of extra page breaks. Since most novels have chapters, its not a problem. For the few that don't, or that have chapters longer than 300K, one would have to insert maybe a half dozen page breaks.
That said the adobe reader software should have been designed to fall back to a non CSS rendering mode for XML files > 300K
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Well with most books I agree: you can create a new flow whenever there's a new chapter (that's what I do on Feedbooks). But a few books, such as Remembrance of things past or Ulysses do not have any page break and are basically a single flow of text.
The fall back to a non CSS rendering mode is a pretty good idea, but overall, those books that do not use page breaks have very little CSS anyway.
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Did you try to configure a Proust as a single XML-flow and view it on the Sony? Did that work at all?
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A single flow won't work at all, you will get a cryptic "Paging Error" message. I'd rather wait while the XML flow is processed rather than getting this sort of message and being unable to open the book.
While using multiple XML flows instead of CSS for page breaks is indeed a *best practice*, the need to
MODIFY the text is quite different.