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Originally Posted by atsoat
I suppose what I'm really asking is, should I be preferring one format over another when purchasing books from a technical perspective?
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This question seems to come up pretty often... If you you look around you can find several threads on this top.
The short answer is that eReader is definitely the worst -- eReader books use a very limited, proprietary, non-SGML markup language called "PML". Mobipocket uses HTML 3.0 with proprietary extensions while LIT uses a somewhat confused subset of OEBPS 1.0, which has markup somewhere between HTML 4.0 and XHTML with a hybrid/subset of CSS 1 & 2. The upshot is that LIT content is more technically advanced and easier to work with at a markup level (for example, it is forced to follow XML well-formedness rules), but most people may not notice much of a difference between the two.
Hope that helps.