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Originally Posted by Sella174
I'm not saying they (ePub and mobi) are different at the source level. I just find it interesting that it is expected that a 100% the-way-I-want-it ePub must also convert to a 100% the-way-I-want-it mobi. I've been reading a few threads and there are lots of complaints about the conversion from ePub to mobi not going too smoothly. Must be a reason for it, huh? Subtle differences in the files and tags is my guess.
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OR,
maybe, it's people who use automated tools like Calibre, or other quick-n-dirty methods,
that don't know the code, at all, expecting them to "just work?" That tends to be what I see, mostly.
Fundamentally,
there aren't any differences. If you get to the point that you want to use CERTAIN tags, for example, a keep-together, let's say, to keep a caption with an image, sure--that won't do jack on a MOBI. Honestly, it won't do jack on 99% of all dedicated eReaders. Will it work on an iPad tablet's dedicated eReading software, iBooks? Apparently--but that's mostly it.
For a basic ebook--fiction, anthologies, even non-fiction that doesn't have advanced layout--there's no difference in the files and tags. You may want to go over those posts/threads again, and take a harder look at the questioner/complainer. We get people in the Sigil forum complaining that it's
HORRIBLE!, because it's not a GUI ePUB maker. Does that make Sigil horrible--or does it just mean that they have no idea what software they're using? Same sort of thing, IME.
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