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Originally Posted by The Old Man
Thanks for this thread.
Why to I want epub ability?
I have gotten used to the old Library, as flaky as it is, and am hesitant to upgrade.
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ePub seems to be on its way to becoming a single standard format for ebooks to be released in. What this will mean is that publishers will no longer have to mess around with many different formats and so the task of releasing books in ebook format will be much easier for them. Thus it is to be hoped that more of them will release more books.
And if ePub catches on, it will be device-independent so that you can buy ePub books now to read on your Sony and then if a better device comes along from a different manufacturer and it also supports ePub format, you can simply transfer the books to the new device without having to buy them once again in a different format.