Thread: Will K2PC 1.19 and KFX alter your ebook purchasing habits?
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Old 01-12-2017, 10:18 PM   #133
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman View Post
I doubt that. epub and presumably kf8 which is apparently similar to epub list text "as is." You can open the file and pretty much read the text. You can't get much easier to "interpret" than that. KFX "compiles" the text and the Kindle software will need to "decompile" it to display it. So in that sense, KFX actually adds a layer of work. Not that it should be a big deal.
That is backwards. Text is easier for people to interpret, but the compiled binary codes of KFX are far easier for a computer to process. The reader software doesn't need to decompile it.
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