jim said:
So, to see what customers are really going to experience one has to get the hardware.
what a myopic viewpoint. yes, to see what kindle-hardware-owners are "really going to experience", you might have to get a kindle. or you might not... but to see what kindle-for-iphone users are "really going to experience", you might have to get an iphone. or you might not. and to see what kindle-for p.c. people are "really going to experience", you might have to get a p.c. or you might not. and maybe vista users will see something that might be different from windows7 users, and windows xp might be different entirely, so you'll need to get each of those flavors, and... now that i think about it, you should definitely get every version of the iphone, because there might be differences there, and the ipod-touch might be different too, and the ipad is most definitely different, and... do you see how ridiculous this gets? because i'm willing to bet some good money that in the vast majority of cases, what you'll find is that the app on all these platforms will read in your .mobi file and end up displaying _the_exact_same_words_in_the_same_order_. and that's all that counts, folks. sincerely. when you show us some _real_ differences in display from one machine to the next, i will be happy to pay attention to _that_... otherwise, you're just a bunch of pinheads. so really, go back to trying to decide what a paragraph is, because _that's_ important! -bowerbird
because i'm willing to bet some good money that in the vast majority of cases, what you'll find is that the app on all these platforms will read in your .mobi file and end up displaying _the_exact_same_words_in_the_same_order_. and that's all that counts, folks. sincerely.
Any one who has spent any time creating content for PG knows that it IS NOT as simple as "displaying the exact same words in the same order." Only "trivial" books follow this rule, and even then it is extremely hard to find a book so "trivial" that accurately representing what the author intended simply requires one to "display the exact same words in the same order." There are counter-examples everywhere going back 100s of years from the very start of printing presses which demonstrate books ARE NOT simply "a list of words in the same order." Which is why from the very start of printing various fonts and font variations and sizes have been used, and various "tricks" of typography have been used NOT simply "listing words in order" - in order to correctly display *the intent* of the author where simple linear ordering of words *is simply not sufficient!*
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