[OT] Re: epub or mobi

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:40:09 +, T o n g wrote:

 If I can choose, which version of ebook I should pick, the epub or mobi
 files, 

I'd go for epub.

 and why?

It's open and looks more compatible regardless the reader/device in use. 
For the other I can't be sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats

Greetings,

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Re: epub or mobi

[Darac Marjal]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 04:40:09AM +, T o n g wrote:
 Hi,
 
 If I can choose, which version of ebook I should pick, 
 the epub or mobi files, and why?

According to a moment's reading of Wikipedia (By the way, the internet is
a GREAT source of knowledge that you yourself can go and find!), choose
EPUB over Mobipocket as the former is free (as in beer AND as in
speech) while the latter is only free as in beer.


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Re: epub or mobi

[Kelly Clowers]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 04:40:09AM +, T o n g wrote:
 Hi,

 If I can choose, which version of ebook I should pick,
 the epub or mobi files, and why?

 According to a moment's reading of Wikipedia (By the way, the internet is
 a GREAT source of knowledge that you yourself can go and find!), choose
 EPUB over Mobipocket as the former is free (as in beer AND as in
 speech) while the latter is only free as in beer.

Epub is also more actively developed (v3 just came out) AFAIK, and
definitely more common.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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Re: epub or mobi

[Brad Alexander]

I generally go with epub. Epub files are the closer to a standardized
format, whereas mobi is more proprietary.

The other reason I prefer epub is that it is, in essence, html docs in
a zip file format. You can unzip title,epub get a listing of html
files:

$ unzip -v The_Great_Commission_-_Steven_Lake.epub
Archive:  The_Great_Commission_-_Steven_Lake.epub
 Length   MethodSize  CmprDateTime   CRC-32   Name
  --  ---  -- -   
5899  Defl:N 2562  57% 2011-07-28 15:19 73989fed  Page_006.html
2815  Defl:N 1296  54% 2011-07-28 15:18 eefddff2  Page_007.html
3278  Defl:N 1502  54% 2011-07-28 15:22 27844f53  Page_008.html
2288  Defl:N 1135  50% 2011-07-28 15:20 3a4153c6  Page_009.html
4828  Defl:N 2087  57% 2011-07-28 15:17 f617d959  Page_010.html
3376  Defl:N 1578  53% 2011-07-28 15:20 72433d36  Page_011.html
4462  Defl:N 1882  58% 2011-07-28 15:20 b50530bd  Page_012.html
8908  Defl:N 3714  58% 2011-07-28 15:17 a44eed3f  Page_013.html
1471  Defl:N  785  47% 2011-07-28 15:12 666f52bd  Page_014.html
 827  Defl:N  485  41% 2011-07-28 15:12 1c2db05e  Page_015.html
1932  Defl:N  419  78% 2010-05-05 19:41 f66060ca  stylesheet.css
 583  Defl:N  313  46% 2010-03-20 22:33 d755d124  titlepage.xhtml
3099  Defl:N  677  78% 2011-07-28 14:48 5b88fc45  toc.ncx
   0  Stored0   0% 2010-07-21 16:52   META-INF/
 237  Defl:N  152  36% 2010-03-20 22:33 7716e82e  META-INF/container.xml
2978  Defl:N  754  75% 2011-07-28 14:45 01059abd  content.opf
  20  Stored   20   0% 2010-03-20 22:33 2cab616f  mimetype
 780  Defl:N  433  45% 2011-07-28 14:35 63e38c68  Page_000.html
1895  Defl:N  885  53% 2011-07-28 15:24 16c2203b  Page_001.html
 966  Defl:N  534  45% 2011-12-18 22:16 48efa850  Page_002.html
1678  Defl:N  880  48% 2011-07-28 14:55 e997672e  Page_003.html
   13051  Defl:N 5200  60% 2011-12-18 22:16 d0bb32bc  Page_004.html
4698  Defl:N 2056  56% 2011-07-28 15:21 ba97913b  Page_005.html
  222915  Defl:N   215843   3% 2010-12-21 15:54 aed8cb8c  cover.jpg
  ---  ------
  292984   245192  16%24 files

These being .html files, can be edited.

All that being said, are you familiar with Calibre
(http://calibre-ebook.com)? It's an ebook library manager and
converter. You should take a look at that, as it lets you convert
between formats at will. It also makes a good library manager, though
have had issues with multiple copies of the same database getting out
of sync, so I may end up using subversion or git on the backend to
keep them in sync.

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On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:40 AM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Hi,

 If I can choose, which version of ebook I should pick,
 the epub or mobi files, and why?

 Thanks

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Re: epub or mobi

[T o n g]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:46:50 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:

 Epub files are the closer to a standardized format, whereas mobi is more
 proprietary.
 
 The other reason I prefer epub is that it is, in essence, html docs in a
 zip file format. You can unzip title,epub get a listing of html files:

I'm sold instantly!

Thanks a lot everyone!

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epub or mobi

[T o n g]

Hi,

If I can choose, which version of ebook I should pick, 
the epub or mobi files, and why?

Thanks

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