[FM Discuss] epub format

[Rob Myers]

On 07/10/09 21:49, adam hyde wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 16:38 -0400, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
>> It looks like very few listed support epub.  Not that that's a reason 
>> for FM to not support it ;)

There are readers for it on most platforms, frees-software-based
hardware ebook readers support it, and it's emerging as the leader for
non-DRM-encumbered ebooks. It's also easy to convert to other ebook
formats, unlike PDF.

> you can format pdf for any size with objavi. the big issue however is
> that the pdf does not scale nicely in some ereaders and hence makes them
> almost unusable. epub is a much nicer format and is based on plain
> vanilla xhtml

Most PDF converters create bitmaps of the PDF rather than converting its
structure to epub. As well as not scaling, it cannot be searched, copied
& pasted, or converted to other structured formats.

IMO epub is the best format for free ebooks.

- Rob.

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