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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
Another EPUB problem is that you need to have "experienced book creators" to work around the weirdness of EPUB format and device quirks. A good book format is cross-platform, and put the burden of displaying it on the reader, not the book author.
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As a reader, I don't want that burden. I want to read. I expect that the publisher where I buy the book from will ensure that my
reading experience is good. It is not different when I buy an physical book.
The metadata (or lack of) will not disturb my
reading experience.
You only read what you want to read and pick lines from responses and are behaving pretty daft. Try to read and understand the answers instead of glancing at them. Then again, based on your responses in this thread, I will not get my hopes up.
Let's just say you have your opinion, just don't confuse an opinion with the hard cold truth of the real world. Let me just state it again.
* Publishers
don't care about metadata
* Almost all readers
don't care about metadata
* Publishers are
fine with the current format for most types of books, exception being perhaps poetry.
* Almost all readers are
fine with the current format for most types of books.
* XHTML
can be use semantically if you want. Nothing prevents that.
* You can add
any metadata in a book you want
* You can separate first name and last name. If it is more difficuly, the file-as property can help.
You will probably not read this anyway, but fine.