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Old 09-07-2014, 12:37 AM   #176
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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob View Post
Well, if you want to use the extra EPUB 3 features that EPUB 2 doesn't have...yeah, it kinda needs to be an EPUB 3.
The point is that there is no reason for these eBooks to be ePub 3 because they do not make use of any actual ePub 3 features. The ePub 3 nav ToC is a very stupid change. The NCX works so much better. And because of making these eBooks to ePub 3, they have to be converted back to ePub 2 in order to get rid of that nav ToC. The ePub already has the NCX so there's no need for it to be ePub 3. Nothing in the OPF metadata says it needs to be ePub 3. It's not hard to go back to ePub 2. It just requires editing the OPF header. Not difficult if you copy/paste from an ePub 2 OPF. Then you can get rid of the excess meta data and the excess ToC.

What I think should have been done was to extend ePub 2 into ePub 3 and not actually change things that worked fine as is.
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