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Originally Posted by HarryT
Very true, but ePub is a "specify everything in the book" format. That's not all bad - eg it allows you to have multiple fonts within the book, which Mobi doesn't.
Don't forget that you will have the option of using Mobi firmware at some point, and retaining everything you have at present with the Gen3. ePub is definitely a format where you gain some features and lose others compared to Mobi.
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The problem, as I see it, is not in the format, but in the software implementation (ADE). There's no reason why an ePUB reader should not let the user select a default font, or several (for the different base css families). Most browsers can do that, after all. It's just frustrating that a potentially more powerful and flexible format such as ePUB is spoiled by a limited reader software, which everyone uses even though the format is open and they could create their own better-featured readers...
Well, at least they got rid of the page numbers and intruduced the 12 font sizes (by the way, are relative font sizes like 85% or 120% honoured when you change the base font size?). Let's hope that they can still add features to the ADE SDK at Bookeen, or press Adobe to do that
