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Originally Posted by Ortep
I agree it should be possible. But as long as it isn't I'm not using ePub. No dictionary support is a deal breaker. I can live without the fancy formatting I hardly ever run into a book with even one picture in it. I do have a TOC in my books and I almost never use it. It is the part in the beginning of the book that I skip as fast as possible. And even if ePub should be able to do all the nice tricks with the formatting, it isn't doing it today. Perhaps in five years I'll reconsider.
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Formatting doesn't have to be fancy. On a screen with as little real estate as the Cybook I want every possibility to tweak formatting to make the book fit better on the screen. And readability is much improved by proper formatting. I read txt files on the Cybook and the experience wasn't exciting...
About the pictures: I also read novels with occasional maps and it does make a difference if you have a clear picture in your mind of the area where the story unfolds. Distances, landscape, routes and special points which might be referenced in the story are much easier related to when you have a rough understanding of what is where...
I also read technical books and here there are some parts you cannot understand without the corresponding illustration.
It very much depends on what you read but although most of my ebooks contain very few pictures they would be sorely missed...