Thread: What exactly are Standard Ebook's "advanced epubs"?
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Old 12-27-2020, 08:16 AM   #45
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin View Post
I have read MANY novels with images that benefited from zooming in, and more than a few with footnotes one outstanding example with plenty of both is The Count of Monte Cristo - pretty sure that's considered a novel. All generalizations are dangerous.
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Originally Posted by robin_reala View Post
Of the 435 books currently in the SE corpus, 176 (or 40%) have endnotes.
Honestly, that is what you pick up on in my post? Pretty much a throw-away remark that I probably should have qualified. Great, your experience is that. In my library, there is probably less than ten novels that have any footnotes. And the only ones that have any images in them are basically fantasy novels with a map. And guess what, when I read those, I loaded them on my Kobo ereader as kepubs so I could look at the map a little easier. The only novel I can think of that made me do this because of footnotes was "World War Z" by Max Brooks.

But, I'll stand my statement that for novels, footnotes and images are relatively rare. For classics, the situation is different. And I'm willing to put money down that there have been extremely few novels that have been on the best-sellers list in the last 50 years that had footnotes and multiple images in them.

And that isn't the issue. The issue it that the "Compatible epubs" are broken on the most common epub ereader out there (yes, I am sure of that). And also broken on the other epub ereader I have (a tolino epos). And, that @acabal seems to be of the opinion that "ADE will make the ebooks look bad!". Which is a problem for two reasons. ADE is not involved, it is the Adobe RMSDK (yes a little pedantic, but they are not the same thing) and, from my experience, the differences in rendering between the different renderers are rarely significant. So, please tell me how the RMSDK makes the books look bad.
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