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Originally Posted by eschwartz
What difference does it make that AZW3 uses a proprietary wrapper, unless you are going the Richard Stallman route... the wrapper is understood by open source tools, which should be the same thing surely.
The openness of the so-called EPUB standard is a myth (because of DRM) and it wouldn't mean anything even if it was true... because AZW3 is just as open.
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I don't consider the openness of epub and mobi to be in the same class at all!
For example, I download books from Mobileread exclusively in epub format even if I intend to read on a Kindle. The reason for that is epub, to me, is a far superior archival format.
If I build a book and turn it into an epub, you can get back out exactly the source files I put in. If I then turn it into a mobi and give that to you, even with the available tools, you can't get back the original book source unless you don't strip it and keep the original epub inside, in which case why not just use epub to begin with?