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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
What I want is a hassle free experience. I don't want to reformat books, I don't even want to strip DRM from a book, I just want to READ the book. ePub has always seemed more 'fiddly' than the Kindle experience. Back in the days when Mobipocket was an independent company, and I read on my Palm 100, things were MUCH worse than epub, but Kindle is just plain easier than ePub.
I gravitated to the Kindle environment over time and will likely remain with it until it fails me or I die. Then I will look around and see what's available.
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There's really no difference...
Amazon's books generally all start as ePubs and then are converted to one of Amazon's formats. Really other than enhanced typesetting bits the overall look of the book is exactly the same. The publisher will (or won't) embed the same font, the chapter headings will all look the same, if there's spaces between paragraphs they'll still be there etc. All Amazon offers is less options and maybe some stability. I guess that's less "fiddly".
There's no reason someone can't make a rock solid ePub reader with like 8 font options too.