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Originally Posted by Pablo
The author of that post confuses ePub with DRM. DRM is not part of the ePub format or specification. The terms "Adobe ePub", "B&N ePub", etc., make no sense at all, when you read "Adobe ePub", it really means "ePub book with Adobe DRM", but I think you already know that.
You can make a horribly looking ePub book. The same is true for pdf, mobi or whatever format you can think of. That has nothing to do with the format itself, but rather with the skills of the book creator. On the other hand, you cannot modify a pdf, but you can modify an ePub to suit your tastes, provided you know how to remove DRM and have basic html and css skills.
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Yes, this.
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Originally Posted by Dutchbook
I would LOVE a format that allows you to buy/loan a book from a vendor and just read it...
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There is. It's called ePub. The problems you mention stem from:
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...the vendors are simply not wanting to accept it.
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And that of course can be corrected with Calibre and Apprentice Alf.
As to the initial post, from what I could glean from the screenshots, it was just a badly formatted book rather than any inherent limitation of the ePub format.