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Old 06-13-2011, 04:50 PM   #157
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
You probably don't know what you are doing. If you use the proper charset most of those problems go away. Occasionally you get an ebook (both mobi and epubs) which have special characters hardcoded into the text. Those stand a good chance of being converted incorrectly. The publisher should always use html to identify special characters, but many don't.

To say that mobi cannot be easily converted to epub is rather naive. You will encounter difficulties even if converting epub to epub, you just have to learn what causes the errors and correct them. Mostly it is due to sloppy publishing standards.
Well, obviously you acknowledge that it is not always that simple to convert ebooks into a different format. The reasons couldn't be more irrelevant to me as an user. What am I supposed to do? Lodge a complaint with Amazon that after breaking their DRM the book doesn't convert properly because of the publisher's sloppy coding? Spend hours correcting the book to make it usable?
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