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Old 01-31-2009, 04:17 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I must respectfully disagree. In practical terms the so-called "limitations" of the MobiPocket format are entirely irrevelent. The overwhelming majority of books do not use sophisticated formatting.
And I must respectfully disagree with your disagreement. I recognize that you have made a significant investment in terms of your Mobipocket-format library, but one effect of that is the formatting of the books you see necessarily lives within Mobipocket's limitations. While writing Mobipocket support for Calibre, I gathered most of my test cases for clean formatting degradation from my corpus of commercially sold LIT format books. I don't consider such things as image floats, right margins on blocks of text, and non-left-flush hanging indents to be extraordinarily sophisticated.

A fair cop on the dictionary support, although that's not technically an aspect of the format itself; i.e. a device supporting multiple formats could allow lookup for all of them in a Mobi dictionary.

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