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Originally Posted by meme
But it is still an epub. A book might not be well-written, but it's still a book. The epub may not have valid xhtml in it, or pass epubcheck, but its still an epub.
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This has been my experience. Both Amazon and B&N accept epubs that do not pass epubcheck, and that Apple (via Lulu) rejects for that reason.
And note that Flight Crew is not as picky as epubcheck. I have learned to run all my epubs through epubcheck, and more often than note epubcheck flags an error (usually insiginificant, but still an error that would cause the book to be rejected by Apple) that Flight Crew missed. Often these are phantom images introduced by word2cleanhtml.com (<img src="xxx"></a>. More recently it was a "fragment" in the OPF file.
The uncompliant books work just fine in the Kindle etc and the Nook, just as my web pages from 1992 work just fine in Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox even though they don't come close to validating.