Thread: EPUB3: Ready or not?
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Old 05-30-2013, 06:22 AM   #13
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Epub3 is great for languages with a different alphabet.
That applies mostly to CJK, because most epub 2 implementations support foreign languages with the appropriate embedded fonts.
The only exception are languages with different initial, medial, final and isolated glyphs, RTL languages and some CJK features, e.g. Ruby and tate-yomi, and this lack of support was mostly caused by Adobe, because if I understand the epub 2.0.1 specs correctly, nothing would have prevented Adobe from implementing support for those languages in ADE.

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I'm currently reading a book with several footnotes. Each time I select one, it appears in a pop-up window. From there I can go to the linked page if there is more than the pop-up can show and easily go back to the page I was reading.
That's pretty much the only epub 3 feature that's actually an improvement over epub 2.01. Unfortunately, Amazon decided not to include it in the KF8 format.
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