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Originally Posted by pking36330
WOL, CHM, FB2: Can you even FIND a eBook in this format? Not one of the top ten eBook merchants carry this format, so unless you subscribe to some George Noory Double Secret Probation Newletter that is ONLY published in one of these formats, they are doing nothing but wasting ROM/RAM on your reader.
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I can find lots, and lots of books in fb2 format. Fb2 is very popular in certain parts of the world. Fb2 is very interesting e-book format because:
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
The FictionBook format does not specify the representation of a document, describing its structure instead. For example, there are special tags for epigraphs, verses and quotations. All the ebook metadata, such as the author name, title, and publish information, is also present in the ebook file. Hence, the format is convenient for automatic processing, indexing, and ebook collections management. Moreover, it allows automatic conversion into other formats.
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Check this Hanlin V5 review from the other thread:
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Originally Posted by Mneme
I discovered, however, that fb2 files have a settings sub-menu (which doesn't appear to exist for any other file formats) where you can set default font face, font size (not zoom), spacing between the lines and a few other things. I wish V5 had these options for other file formats ...
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Chm is even more interesting. It is true, you do not find fiction books in chm format, but there are huge amounts of computer literature, reference manuals and other interesting materials in chm format.
Wolf format is proprietary format used by early reading devices made by Jinke, so it is very important for compatibility with libraries some loyal Jinke customers accumulated over the years.