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I assume you can buy Sony format books that have not been properly produced also. |
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I believe that you are being over-pessimistic in generalising that ALL Mobi files have images which are too small. Take a look at my "Sherlock Holmes Omnibus"; a number of the stories in that contain illustrations. See, for example, "The Dancing Men" or "The Golden Pince-Nex", both in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". I think that you'll find those illustrations to be a perfectly acceptable size in my Mobi version. |
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I don't see any short term alternative to MOBI, but it isn't a good starting point for format shifting.
MobiPocket HTML is nasty, here is a recent discussion: The Mobipocket format: Starring Leonardo diCaprio and Kate Winslet. LIT HTML is still old-style, but at least it has CSS and if you explode a LIT you get a OEB document directly (e.g. it will have a OPF file for metadata). There are not many tools for OEB files, but oeb2epub converts it to an EPUB. The issue with images is partly that MOBI is packaged as a palm PRC file, which limits images to 64KB. There was also originally no JPEG support. LIT images are usually JPEG, and there is in any case no limit on image file size for LIT. MobiPocket now allows JPEG, which can be made to fit in 64 KB without shrinking the image, but most MOBI e-books use GIFs and have smaller images than the corresponding LIT. So using ConvertLIT and mobigen.exe to make a MOBI from a LIT often gives you a better MOBI file than the one produced by the publisher. Some e-books are MOBI only, and it is probably a good thing that most of these are hidden by DRM because MobiPocket has quite a few non-standard extensions to HTML which are likely used liberally in such e-books. Last edited by wallcraft; 11-25-2007 at 05:07 PM. |
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Thanks wallcraft! This is a very compelling argument against the Mobipocket format.
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I live in the US and bought the 505 3 weeks ago. It's an incredible device. Of course the 100 free classics through e-connect was enticing but since then I've noticed several web sites (like Mobileread and Manybooks.net) literally offer thousands of books in the SONY 505 LRF and BBeB format. In fact, every "free" classic book offerred by e-connect is also available at those 2 sites. However, the e-connect bookstore is the only source for new/recent publications. If you can't access the site, you can't buy new, first run books. That would be a major drawback for me. But since I love classic literature and poetry, I still have a source for thousands of texts.
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But you are right, LIT is not perfect, but it is better then Mobi as far as the images go. |
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Oh, I don't doubt you & I have no real complaints with LIT. In this particular case the map was useless is all.
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"I'm also conscious of the fact that I'm voting with my dollars. This market is young enough (there are so few of us still) that one person's platform choice can help make a difference on the direction the industry takes. On that end, the Cybook seems to have less "baggage" than the Sony. However, I'm not convinced that buying Mobipocket is sending the right message."
That's why I'm only considering the hanlin and cybook (or would consider the iliad but I don't like it very much). I don't want to support a company pushing a one-format-to-one device model. Besides, you know that in the end, a company that does push such a model will burn you. It's happened over and over again. I also don't want to support a company that shits on / ignores the rest of the world. I'm sick of software that won't display foreign character sets, etc, or does things like when apple bricked the iPhone. I can't be bothered with such hassles. Remember that mobipocket is what the kindle uses... kindle just changes some encryption code to make it incompatible, but technically speaking it can't be THAT bad, maybe just old books sold in that format were formatted poorly, it can't be that the format is inherently incapable of proper formatting. Mobipocket might not be perfect technically or otherwise, and I'm weary of it now that amazon bought them and split the DRM model into two formats, but at least on the still-mobipocket side it's still multi-platform. Philosophically what are you buying into when you buy into the mobipocket system, and how might that affect you in the long term? If someone new comes out with another mobi-like multi-platform DRM system, clients might be added to devices like the hanlin and cybook. Companies peddling things like the kindle and sony 505 have no motivation to permit a client to any competing DRM format, to formats that take away from their own content sales. If anything they'd make a new device that supported the multiformat, but keep their kindle or 505 purchasers locked into the single format... and thus leave you stranded. You're hoping for adobe DE in your 505? Why would sony follow through with that? Content is a good revenue stream, and the more devices they sell the less likely they will be to give customers an exit strategy. If sales are terrible, then they might consider it to boost sales, but only when they get the message the closed DRM is not OK would they even consider adding DE support. Right now I don't think that "not OK" message is out there. I'd be quite surprised if Sony added DE support before companies like bookeen/cybook and jinke/hanlin. The later have no proprietary content format to defend, it's only an issue of negotiating with adobe and writing the code. Sony has to wait for sales to slump before they'd consider writing the code. If Sony was willing to offer alternatives, they'd already be offering mobipocket support. They obviously have the resources to write a mobipocket or DE client if they wanted to. I'm thinking if you're going to make a decision, it will have to come by ordering a hanlin v3 or cybook gen3 immediately though. I can't imagine you having the sony 505 in front of you and not opening it. I'd be impressed if you had that kind of willpower though. |
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