Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes. That is, I imagine, what the ePub programs for mobile phones, PDAs, etc, actually true.
True, but the reading application does.
|
True, which is why I said it was the reader who performed the magic of being able to read where you left off, not the format. By the way, mobi's reader is pretty sophisticated while the format is pretty terrible. One thing that the reader does is keep a side file with all the data it needs to pick up where it left off or find a bookmark with all the context it needs to read the data. ePUB readers could certainly squirrel away enough context data to provide similar capabilities to start quickly and make bookmarks quick, however arbitrary jumps are tougher and mobi doesn't do so good on them either.
Dale