On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-li...@karan.org> wrote: > On 11/18/2010 07:10 AM, A. Mani wrote: >> >> The best ebook format is epub (for blind people .txt may be easier to >> use). >> Kindle does not support epub. > > perhaps offlist if you prefer, but I would like to know why you think a > storage format might have such a drastic impact on content delivery. > > kindle supports epub format'ed books fine given that non-drm'ed epub > documents can be converted to pdf.
epub is a Xhtml + XML based format meant specifically for ebooks. The main criteria is : Screen Reading + Printing: Accessibility: text is better than other formats Searchability: image only pdf/djvu cannot be searched Screen Reading Only optimization Editing : pdf, djvu are not meant for this. Size: epub is better than others lines can be wrapped in epub but not in pdfs/djvu ... this is important for reading the same document on other readers/pc open format: Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
