Learn to say popular e-book and scanned document file format names correctly.
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How is EPUB (open standard e-book file format supported by most e-readers) correctly pronounced?
EPUB is pronounced 'EE-pub' — the letter 'E' plus 'pub', short for electronic publication. In a technical interview: "EPUB reflowed the text automatically, so it looked right on a phone screen and a tablet alike."
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How is MOBI (e-book format originally developed by Mobipocket, used on older Kindle devices) correctly pronounced?
MOBI is pronounced 'MOH-bee' — stress on MOH, short for Mobipocket. In a technical interview: "MOBI was the format every early Kindle expected, before Amazon moved on to AZW."
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How is AZW3 (Amazon's proprietary e-book format used on modern Kindle devices) correctly pronounced?
AZW3 is pronounced 'AY-ZEE-DUB-uhl-yoo-THREE' — 'A', 'Z', 'W' spoken as letters, plus the number 'three'. In a technical interview: "AZW3 supported richer typography than the older MOBI format did."
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How is FB2 (FictionBook, an XML-based e-book format popular in Russian-language publishing) correctly pronounced?
FB2 is pronounced 'EF-BEE-TOO' — 'F' and 'B' spoken as letters, plus the number 'two'. In a technical interview: "FB2 stored the whole book as structured XML, which made it easy to convert to EPUB."
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How is DjVu (image-based file format optimized for scanned documents) correctly pronounced?
DjVu is pronounced 'day-ZHOO' — a deliberate play on the phrase 'déjà vu'. In a technical interview: "DjVu compressed the scanned textbook to a fraction of the size the equivalent PDF would have taken."