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Originally Posted by darryl
That it has been done in epub proves it can be done. However, according to DiapDealer's comments, the epub implementation "will render differently (from subtle to drastic) in every app and on every device." KFX, on the other hand, gives a very similar rendering across all Amazon devices and apps which support it. As I understand it to achieve this in kf8 would not be trivial and may require changes to the format and/or the renderer on each device. Or failing this, customised kf8 files for each book/device combination. I very much doubt it would be impossible, but it does seem likely that Amazon chose kfx for good technical reasons, perhaps that achieving what they wanted was much easier technically and more efficient with kfx.
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But, given that Amazon has device that hande KF8 and not KFX, Amazon should have done these things with the KF8 renderer because of this in order to give more people a better reading experience. Heck, Sony was able to add ePub support the the 500 even though it's rather an old device. Also, it's possible to fit a KF8 compatible firmware onto a DX. So yes, there's more Amazon could do but like Apple, they don't care about older devices and want people to buy newer devices when there's nothing wrong with what they have and what they have could have been updated.