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Old 02-15-2010, 08:51 AM   #28
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This is a false misconception many people have. Walcraft did a format comparison on all the formats which is one of the better formatted eBooks. His study showed all of the major formats looked the same with only one real loser and that was eReader.
This study coincided with my experience as well.

There is only one format that has the best fidelity, as you put it, and also the only format that is supported but most if not all ereaders and that is PDF.
It's quite possible that in most current ebooks that ePub formatting of the text is no better than in the Mobipocket version. But illustrations are almost always higher quality (more pixels, fewer compression artifacts) in ePub than in Mobipocket, since the Mobipocket images are almost always reduced to fit in 63KiB, while there's no such limit on ePub images.

And there's at least one ebook out there where the formatting in the ePub is a lot better than the Mobipocket version - one I publish, which has proper drop cap images in ePub, but only large cap images (on and above the first line) in Mobipocket, because drop caps aren't possible in Mobipocket.
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