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Old 03-27-2021, 04:50 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by jadhvaryu View Post
What is any extra advantage of epub (except may be rights mgmt) over HTML format?
EPUB is mostly a subset of HTML+CSS. It provides encapsulation, metadata, a (more or less) clear specification of which part of HTML+CSS a reader must support, an offline (i.e, out of the book content) toc.

With plain HTML you don't have the toc, and you'll probably be tempted to use fancy features that are not supported by e-readers.

Now, if your question is whether to use HTML or EPUB from Gutenberg. Well, note that in the vast majority of cases (I guess), the EPUB is an automated conversion from HTML, so you probably don't gain much... The best would be to start from HTML and manually create the EPUB, but that's a lot of work, and it's what has been done with many of the books in our (MobileRead's) library.
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