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Old 04-08-2009, 11:56 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by kindleformatting View Post
In addition, the ePub and Mobipocket formats are not the same. The OPF support is different, the HTML support is different, and the CSS support is different. There are a large number of areas where you cannot make the two mesh, and it is best to treat them as different animals. Sure a fiction book can be easily converted from one to the other, but once you start getting into business books, textbooks, and other books with formatting irregularities, you are much better off dealing with two different source files.
I won't argue whether this is practically true or not, but it really gets my goat. Mobipocket doesn't use OPF or CSS at all, which means all the differences are in how Amazon/Mobipocket have so poorly implemented the OPF and CSS support in mobigen.
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