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Old 02-21-2009, 04:26 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
Unfortunately, Mobipocket is not equivalent to ePub. The formatting in an ePub book can be much more elaborate than in a Mobipocket one, and most of that can be lost in conversion. It's usually fine if you just want to read the text, but you can use .txt for that, after all.
But I think that "can be more elaborate" is the important thing. Yes, ePub files can have much more elaborate formatting than Mobi is able to support, but I rather suspect that in the overwhelming majority of fiction, those advanced capabilities of ePub are not used.
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