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Old 06-20-2009, 04:46 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I think the author is nuts. Yes, eReader is not a nice format. But Mobipocket is not better then ePub. As he pointed out, with the Mobile ePub specifications, the issues of having to load in the entire file and render it all at once in memory is a non-issue. The author is just wrong. What he says is so good about Mobipocket is part of why Mobipocket is not so good.
Perhaps you are being too harsh - I believe the author is saying ePub is indeed better than Mobi, but there's a reason Mobi and LIT formats still exist, and ePub can learn from them.
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