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Originally Posted by MichaelV
It's completely unstructured
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Look at the sectionize options for FB2. The default if files which puts a section tag around the files that comprise the epub. You might have better luck with sectionizing via toc.
If the file already is split into sections (should be) then it could be something with your reader not supporting splitting on sections.
That said the FB2 output is super advanced. EPUB doesn't translate into FB2 very wel...
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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
So, what reads a FB2 file? What are the format's advantages? I can't find much about it.
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It's popular in Russia. There isn't much out there that reads the format. It's an XML based format and is pretty easy to parse.
The major issue with FB2 conversion is it has lots of very specific tags. Such as a tag to denote poetry. This is really easy to turn into nicely formatted html for epub. However, since html doesn't have a way to truly mark the use/intent of a section of text it's non-trival (nearly impossible) to convert a section of text into the specialized FB2 tags.
Some advantages, it's an open format. I believe it predates epub 2. It's also single file. Truly single file. Not a package of multiple files like EPUB. It's very book centric. A reading system should be able to easily understand and display a book in the format very well. But as with any format it doesn't matter how good it is if no one has interest in work with it. Writing an FB2 reader is still going to be a large undertaking.