EPUB vs MD
Een uitgebreide vergelijking van EPUB eBook en Markdown — bestandsgrootte, kwaliteit, compatibiliteit en welk formaat het beste past bij jouw workflow.
EPUB eBook
eBooksEPUB is the open standard for reflowable digital books. It adapts text to any screen size and is supported by most e-readers except Kindle. EPUB 3 adds support for multimedia and interactivity.
Over EPUB-bestandenMarkdown
Documents & TextMarkdown is a lightweight markup language that uses plain text formatting syntax. It is widely used in software development, technical documentation, and content management systems.
Over MD-bestandenVergelijking van sterke punten
EPUB Sterke punten
- Open standard — no vendor lock-in, no DRM required.
- Reflowable text — adapts to any screen size, font size, or orientation.
- Rich typography via CSS, embedded fonts, and SVG.
- Accessibility-first: native support for screen readers, adjustable text, and alt-text.
- Universal across every non-Kindle ebook reader and library app.
MD Sterke punten
- Readable as plain text even before rendering — fits in version control beautifully.
- Dead-simple: 90% of needs covered in 10 minutes of learning.
- Converts trivially to HTML, PDF, EPUB, and DOCX via Pandoc.
- Every modern IDE, note-taking app, and developer tool renders it natively.
- Lightweight — a typical Markdown file is kilobytes, not megabytes.
Beperkingen
EPUB Beperkingen
- Kindle does not support EPUB natively (Amazon wants you to convert to AZW3).
- Fixed-layout EPUBs (for children's books, comics) are awkward to author.
- Rendering quality varies between apps — some CSS works everywhere, some does not.
- Adobe DRM (ADEPT) or Apple FairPlay are optional layers that complicate portability.
MD Beperkingen
- No formal authoritative spec — CommonMark, GFM, and MultiMarkdown differ on edge cases.
- Tables and complex layouts are clunky; footnotes and math require extensions.
- Links to images stay external — no embedded media unless you base64-inline.
- Styling is limited to what HTML allows — custom branding requires CSS outside Markdown.
Technische specificaties
| Specificatie | EPUB | MD |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | application/epub+zip | text/markdown |
| Extension | .epub | — |
| Container | ZIP archive | — |
| Markup | XHTML 1.1 (EPUB 2); HTML5 (EPUB 3) | — |
| Standards | IDPF/W3C EPUB 2.0.1, 3.0, 3.2, 3.3 | — |
| Extensions | — | .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd |
| Standard | — | CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) |
| Encoding | — | UTF-8 (conventional) |
| Companion spec | — | RFC 7763 (2016) |
Typische bestandsgroottes
EPUB
- Novel (300 pages, text only) 200-800 KB
- Illustrated reference book 5-30 MB
- Fixed-layout children's book 30-100 MB
MD
- README 1-15 KB
- Blog post 2-30 KB
- Full technical manual 50 KB - 2 MB
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