Jim Adcock wrote:
Your confusion probably arises from the fact that /software/ which is designed explicitly to deal with ePub or MOBI files is /also/ designed to display the interior HTML in a way that makes it more "book-like" (e.g. page-oriented, with new pages starting at the beginning of chapters).
My "confusion" is over why anyone would consider reading HTML via any of the major HTML browsers a "book-like" experience. I certainly know at least something about the internal formats of E-book files having made literally about 20,000 such E-books from PG HTML files.
I agree with your question; "why would anyone consider reading HTML via any of the major HTML browsers?" Particularly when you can read HTML via most of the major e-book readers? Perhaps more to the point, why would anyone think that when you have an HTML file you /should/ read it in a browser?