Hi,

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

Thanks

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On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 04:40:09AM +0000, 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.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 04:40:09AM +0000, 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.


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Kelly Clowers


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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 Method Size Cmpr Date Time 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 Stored 0 0% 2010-07-21 16:52 00000000 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.

--b

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:40 AM, T o n g <mlist4suntong@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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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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On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:40:09 +0000, 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

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