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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Let's go one step further, and allow you to manually specify the ToC.
Hey, now we have two files. Why not ZIP them so they stay together? Oooh, look -- EPUB!
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I consider EPUB to be a rather crappy format, with way too much unnecessary complexity. You cannot simply create an EPUB file from scratch with a text editor unless you are an expert, while this is easily done with HTML. Chapters have to be separate files, which makes no sense at all and is a major nuisance with editing. I suppose some of EPUB's annoying complexity is owed to its DRM capabilities, but, well, you know what I think about that
Sure, I can parse an HTML file and insert a TOC at its top, but this TOC would not be accessible from within the text while I'm reading, as it is with EPUB or MOBI. It would be an easy task for the e-reader to parse the HTML file upon loading and create a TOC on the fly, but as far as I know, this isn't done. (On my PC, LibreOffice does it nicely enough, though there is a bug when I just open the HTML file -- when I create an empty document and import the HTML file, it works well.)
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
AS far as reading HTML goes... I do know the Kindle supports TXT as a format, and will render it in HTML if it is in fact formatted in HTML. The extension must still be .txt for some reason.
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I should have said "zipped HTML" -- it's a major advantage to have text, images and style sheet together in a single file. Since you already know about my paranoia, let me voice the suspicion that HTMLZ is shunned by the publishing industry because it doesn't offer DRM capabilities. It would still be nice to have it available, because it would be by far the easiest format to create and to edit, but there seems to be very little suport for it by any reading devices or software.