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Originally Posted by graycyn
That's odd, Jon, because I just went and downloaded the same title, compatible version, and it opened up with my ADE 2.01 just fine with NO changes by myself. I literally downloaded and double-clicked and it opened right up. Nothing whatsoever wrong with it. OK, it's lacking a cover, but I wouldn't necessarily expect them to purchase a copy with a good dust jacket from the 1920s for scanning. Those don't necessarily come cheaply!
EDIT: ADE 2.01 is running on a Windows 10 PC.
Now, the formatting wasn't to MY particular preference, as there were spaces between the paragraphs, and headings were left aligned, unlike the original print books where they were centered, but the book was perfectly readable, the navigation worked, and I really couldn't see any problem AT ALL that should phase the average reader. Because it worked with Adobe 2.01, it should also open up on an older Sony, Nook, and of course Kobo readers.
I opened 'er up in Sigil, ran the epubCheck plugin, valid. CSS also valid except for some ebook specific stuff and there wasn't much of that. I can guarantee that many big publisher books don't pass epubCheck.
Are you sure the book doesn't work (i.e. unreadable, unnavigable, unopenable), or is it just that you don't care for the formatting?
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The formatting is wrong because ADE is ignoring the CSS. Open the same eBook in the Calibre viewer and you'll see what I mean.