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 <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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