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Originally Posted by Kameli
Thanks. I never realized fb2 was format.  Now I set Calibre to produce fb2's. I wonder if PB can handle those faster and better than epub's? |
Each of those formats has some virtues.
If you want to use some very specific formatting, you use epub, AND open it with Acrobat Reader on PocketBook. If you wish to override all formatting with settings on your PocketBook you open the epub in FBReader.
FB2 format, is THE format the FBReader application was originally built for.
The main feature of fb2 is that it does not describe presentation of the book, it leaves the presentation fully to the setting of reading application. fb2 format only describes structure of the document and it has the most complete set of tags you might want to use for description of the structure of the book. An fb2 file is XML documents and there are special "recipes" that describe how the fb2 document should be translated to other formats. You just run the book and the recipe through a parser written in Java. But this is more interesting to programmers that want to work with fb2.
fb2 book can contain covers (and PocketBook can display those in cover view) and other files. So you have a book in a markup language and yet, you do not have to maintain the covers, images, illustrations and other stuff in separate files as you would have to do in html.
You can even compress the fb2 file and the PocketBook can read Name_Of_Book.fb2.zip files directly.