Thread: iPad Anyone else NOT like reading on their iPad?
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Old 06-14-2010, 04:37 AM   #141
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
Frankly I think HTML 4 or 5 would be just as good of a format for ebooks as epub is. Since HTML 5 can be extended only a few exentions would be needed for metadata like Title, Author, Language, Pub date, ISBN, etc.
That is basically what ePub is.
The book itself is an (X)HTML file[1], together with extra files to give metadata, with DRM support, zipped up and renamed to .ePub.

[1] Actually due to the specification it is several files, split up so that low-memory readers can handle it.
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