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Old 07-02-2009, 06:23 AM   #83
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Originally Posted by cjcherryh View Post
As a creator of e-books, I find mobi easier to work with: you don't have to stitch and paste huge files and then discover you got something in the wrong order. Much easier to edit, and you can do a partial and test the result to see if something works correctly, or if your flowing text actually displays right.

With ePub you have to just close your eyes, push the button, and hope. And wipe it and go work with another software to prep it, then try again.
That's not my experience at all, I find it much easier to work with ePUB, although you have to create some metadata and TOC files which are not needed in Mobi. But you can test XHTML in a browser, and you can create the ePUB just by zipping, whereas Mobi involves some custom HTML and opaque transformations.
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