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Originally Posted by PeterT
And the odds are that those supposed ePubs would fail validation by tools designed to check ePubs.
Why the blazes do you have to be so antagonistic. All I was doing was attempting to educate people that PDB is NOT an actual eBook format.
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I can't gage the odds of any particular epub passing the tests of any particular testing program, but I do know that whatever flaws they may have my other readers and reading programs have no trouble allowing me to read the books contained in the files. I don't consider Kobo's inability to read them as anything but poor error handling, for you to say that the files aren't good enough for kobo to be able to read them, while they can be read by other readers, smacks more of intolerance than of discernment.
Ok, lets say you have established that PDB is not an actual eBook format, what are the people you have so "educated" expected to do with that information? Are they supposed to believe that they should not buy or otherwise obtain an ebook file with the .pdb extension? Should they take you at your word and not expect there to be a viable ebook in such a file?
Or, as I suspect is your intent, are they to hold it as no short coming that the Kobo readers can't read ebooks from .pdb files? Where as the Koreader can.
If not taking your comment at face value, and disagreeing with what it implies makes me "antagonistic", so be it.
Luck;
Ken