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Thanks for the new comments.
I'm a bit hesitant if I should be replying to some of the comments. I noticed some people are quite passionate to convince others, and I don't want you to think I'm an ungrateful listener. So please treat my responses as FYI. I don't have any intention of changing your minds. I'm just explaining my rationale.

What car is better: subaru wrx or corvette? There is no right or wrong here. Subaru is better in rally driving, but corvette is better in road racing. To me it's similar with fixed layout and reflowing. The former is better for image heavy ebooks, and the latter for text or text with occasional images.

Originally Posted by Hitch

Uh...okay. Why didn't you just make it reflowable, with page breaks between each "page" or panel? Why all the fixed-layout brain-damage? ? What is it that you think you get, from FXL, that you wouldn't get from a properly-made reflowable eBook?

When you open (on a small-screen device) a comic-like ebook formatted as reflowable, you'll have to use zoom a lot. Unfortunately, first you have to double-click the image. When you want to go to the next page, first you have to close the image that you had open on the screen. It's just clumsy, and not too pleasant if you have to do it with every page. The reading experience for comic-like ebooks is much nicer with fixed layout: pinch zoom works immediately, and turning pages works without any issues. Try it if you don't believe me.

There is another reason, which might be due my lack of experience: I'm unable to get rid of wide white margins. Real estate on a phone screen is precious. I tried a few things, including negative margins, resets in css,
and <meta content="true" name="zero-margin"/> in content.opf
So far no luck when I display it on my phone.

Originally Posted by Hitch

Hell, for that matter, if you really want finite control, why not put each panel into its own HTML file, inside the ePUB, so that you can control top-margin, thus achieving near-fxl placement on the "page" for lack of a better word?

That's how I did it. I also read somewhere that this is a preferred method as readers don't need to load the entire book at once, just one html file (i.e. one page) at a time. It's faster. I use this method in both layout options of my test ebook.

Originally Posted by Hitch

Phones with "Kindle for..." can view pretty much ALL formats of Kindle ebook.

Totally happy to read this! Extremely important.

Originally Posted by Hitch

There is a chart, in the Kindle help pages, about what's readable where--except, it's wrong and out of date.

I'll try to find it.

Originally Posted by Hitch

I wouldn't overestimate the size of the Kindle phone-reading market. ... The Hitch rough poll of my customers and others in various and sundry "normal person" forums--not this hotbed of devoted e-Reading forum members--seems to indicate that.

Do you share these results? A link? That would be super informative to read.