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ePUB today is too flexibility.
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With this I somewhat agree. The epub spec has too many sections that start with "can" and end with "don't have to". But as Sorotokin said in a thread here on mobileread, when you're creating a standard you can't just do what you think is best; there are politics involved. There are a lot of members in the IDPF, and some kind of consensus has to be reached.
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SONY's file limitation should not have happened. The spec should have provided for these memory constrained devices or excluded them form supporting ePUB.
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This is silly. You can't just proclaim that all devices should parse content files of unlimited length because every device is memory constrained in some way. And yet you cannot pigeonhole the standard to 2007 and set arbitrary limits on content files. Ten years from now (probably a lot sooner) even embedded devices will have more than enough resources to parse any kind of epub file, so such limitations would be a hindrance.