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Originally Posted by cerement
This is why I'm looking for what would be suitable as a "master format". The XHTML component of ePub is not rigid enough. The DTBook component looks better (and easier to validate as XML). TEI is used more often in humanities, and DITA offers non-linear flexibility.
But a "master format" is going to have to be relatively rigid in its makeup because the purpose of a so-called "master format" would be to prevent or minimize these errors. Even something as simple as
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<span class="dropcap">M</span>obileread
can cause problems by breaking searches for "mobileread" (even though it's not supposed to). |
This is why I like PDF for electronic formats. Now, it doesn't mean it's the most friendly format for an eReader, but in terms of electronic format in general, I absolutely love PDFs. It allows me to store them in one hard drive, do searches, and even maintain notes along with the PDFs, and print them out when I need to for marking up etc.
Some machines handle PDFs quite well. I think, so far, my experience with the PRS-700 in reading PDFs has been fair to good for PDF.
I LIKE PDFs!
