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Originally Posted by wayamauro
JSWolf you seem to like epub very much, what is the main difference with lrf?
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EPub files are HTML files, zipped, with some metadata attached to make them read as ePubs. They are customizable and user-editable, by anyone who knows how to edit HTML files, especially with CSS. (Which doesn't include me, but it's hardly an obscure skill.) EPub files are readable by many devices and with many programs, and because they're HTML-in-a-package files, easily convertible to other formats, if that's desired.
LRF files are only readable on Sony devices and by a couple of programs (Sony's library and Calibre, neither of which is designed as a just-a-reader program), and aren't as customizable in layout or other details.
That said, the Sony series renders LRFs better than ePubs; it doesn't support all of ePub's options (like fully justified text), and it puts the ePub page numbers over the text. And a lot of commercially made ePubs are poorly designed, with wide margins that get wider when the text is made bigger.