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Originally Posted by ProDigit
As I'm learning about epub, this kind of brings out a few issues.
I'll have to look at the differences between EPuB 2 and 3, and see which one is easier to make.
Then I'd have to worry if EPuB 2 support will remain strong on e-ink devices, or will become extinct in a few years (when epub 4 would come out).
I'm safer with EPuB 3, even if my device doesn't support the video content (which I'm not expecting it to).
Video playback capabilities can be nice to have on an e-ink device, but can also be seriously distracting, when vendors will start with animated .gif commercials, and later flash and or movie playback; which totally defeats the purpose of an e-ink device.
Same thing happened with about everything out there. Commercial has spammed, and flooded the television and radiowaves, the internet, and mobile websites too (that originally where created with a minimum on spam on overhead)...
Amazon already is using static images for commercial, so I'm glad that e-readers currently and mostly still don't support video playback.
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The support for ePUB3 is scarce. Every reader and app supports ePUB2 and will continue to do so, because it is much easier. This is especially true for e-ink readers. Building and creating ePUB2 is also easier, since the most used editors support ePUB2 much better than ePUB3.
If you choose ePUB3, you are restricting yourself. It is possible to save or convert an ePUB2 as ePUB3.
My very, very strong advice is to keep at ePUB2 unless you really need the new functionality of ePUB3.