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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
Throw those together with all the reflowable e-book standards and you have a real alphabet soup of formats. Will we ever see sanity in the e-book and document worlds? Good question!
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Good question Bob. I think the disentropic force here is the massive effort people are making to devise format converters. One of them even breaks the DRM on lit files! Maybe in the future we will see specialized websites catering to format information and the download of conversion tools.
For most of us, the history of computing is largely encompassed by our lifetimes. Still, I know one engineer in Seattle who makes enough money to keep his private twin-engined plane docked at his private pier on Lake Washington. What does he do? He make a business of converting archaic database files to new formats. When he is not doing that he is flying his plane or counting his money.
