Thread: EPUB3: Ready or not?
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Old 05-29-2013, 07:37 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by mrmikel View Post
In that case, why not just publish it as a pdf, which most of these readers and tablets and computers can all read and can be created on any computer with a pdf printer driver and a publishing or word processing program.
Kindle/mobi seems to get the balance right in allowing reflow and keeping consistent formatting. And the attraction of both Kindle and EPUB is precisely that they do allow reflowing. I'm wondering what EPUB's problem is this way.

My personal axe to grind is poetry. Some displays just fine in some ebook readers. Other examples don't. Sometimes the same book will look just fine in, for instance, the EPUB reader add-on for Firefox, while losing its verse breaks and turning into single blocks of text in FBReader. Maybe this is an issue in the software's implementation of the EPUB standard rather than the standard itself, but I certainly don't see much sign that it's been addressed by the EPUB community - unless EPUB3 is supposed to be the solution that fixes these issues.
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