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Originally Posted by srml
Why do you think Mobi is better? In my opinion ePub has the following advantages: - ePub is a documented standard format and can be generated "by hand" (I did that yesterday just using tidy, sed, vim and zip and got a very useable book). To create a working Mobi file you need special tools. It is much harder to edit a Mobi book which doesn't display correct than to edit an ePub book.
- On the Cybook, the formatting possibilities with ePub are much better (using CSS and more supported HTML tags). And the margins can be smaller than with Mobi books.
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I'm seeing it as a reader/user, so there is no need for me to generate books. But if you think using several different apps and doing it by hand is better/easier then using 1 (free) tool, then we clearly have different viewpoints.
On the CyBook there is NO support for ePUB at the moment (Weltbild version has lots of bugs and is a special case), but if it'll be supported in the future will it:
- let me choose the font to use (not in Weltbild version or the Sony reader)?
- let me use justification (Weltbild version is buggy and not on Sony reader)?
- let me use dictionaries (no support AFAIK) like Mobi?
All these are VITAL for me! So I'll stick to Mobi... (at least for the near future)
Maybe ePUB will become better with more features added/supported, but at the moment Mobi IS the better format (just my 2 cents).
