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Old 03-12-2014, 12:33 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by oj829 View Post
Insofar as my favorite reader app (FBreader) only partially supports Kindle (according to their own website), and my favorite reader app before that (Aldiko) pretty much only dealt with epub back in the day and didn't even try, then yeah, it's a "standard" for me.

If I can't read it in FBReader (or APV Pro for PDFs), or on my Kobo glo, I really don't want to bother. The Free Market is supposed to be about choices. For me.
Just so long as it's only your standard, not a universal one.

So FBreader supports the EPUB "standard"... unless the book has DRM, or the book is a kepub or iBook. Which are most commercial books. DRM is the biggest reason why the EPUB standard is a myth, though there is also the fact that no one can actually agree on which parts of the "standard" to support...

And regardless, it is the height of simplicity to convert a mobi7/mobi8-formatted book to an EPUB, so you can read your Amazon purchases on Kobo/Nook/Sony/Marvin/FBreader/Mantano/Moon+/anything under the sun. (Because calibre is the only product available that fully supports all formats.) That's what I call real choice.
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