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dartf | 7 years ago

fb2(stands for FictionBook) is an XML-based format, mostly popular in Russia[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FictionBook

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robin_reala|7 years ago

Thanks, I’d not heard of it before. I guess EPUB’s got a while to go to cover all niches.

otabdeveloper1|7 years ago

EPUB can't cover this niche.

EPUB is basically just HTML in a zipfile, with all the ugly warts that HTML comes with. (Attempts to enforce "pixel-perfect" design, broken accessibility, ugly fonts forced on you, etc.)

EPUB is good for publishers, I guess, but a crappy ebook format.

FB2 is a different beast, it's an extremely minimal XML dialect that encodes only semantic information and nothing else. (Basically, tags for chapters/sections/headings/verse and that's about it. The extent of the formatting allowed is 'em' and 'b' tags.)