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True, but that's beside the point -- perhaps I misunderstood, but you seemed to be suggesting that because Mobi is the only one who makes a converter for their format, that they then control what content could go into their format. Since they don't control the actual conversion process (having released their converter into the wild) they don't really have any control over what those 'in the wild' converters are used to convert. Even if they drop the format and stop distributing the converter they still couldn't control what the converter was used to convert. That's all I was saying.
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How many 5.25" diskettes do you have? How about 3.5" diskettes? Formats change. While old formats may be used over time, sooner or later the hardware stops supporting it, or simply isn't sold anymore. |
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So I can't do any kind of evaluation on it. But since it's not open source, it really isn't much better than MobiPocket's content creator. |
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So what do you use to create your eBooks with, Lauzon - you know, all these that you keep telling us that it's "no work" to produce?
Curiously, I can find no books uploaded by you in our book upload area! |
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Book Designer does not create MobiPocket format eBooks. It will create an eBook that the MobiPocket reader will read, but that doesn't mean it's a MobiPocket format eBook. |
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Mobipocket is the palmdoc format with a few extra tags (documented on their website) and sometimes proprietary compression and/or encryption added. It's not the evil you make it out to be.
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Let me also point out only those with access to some sort of electricity can use light bulbs. Having hardware, software, infrastructure or whatever other kind of requirements you'd care to name is not the form of censorship you seem to be implying it to be. Nevermind, I find I'm losing interest in watching advanced sophistry employed to avoid acknowledging that anyone else has any sort of point, however minor it might be. I've long since seen your points on the subject -- many I even agree with, even if I don't find them all compelling -- but I don't see much benefit in a discussion where only one side can ever be acknowledged as making even the least little bit of sense. |
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Other eBooks are of questionable legal standing (like the Doc Savage or Shadow from Blackmask). Some are eBooks of paper books that I have (and I can't upload those either). I have some older books from Project Gutenberg, but I have long ago stripped out the Project's disclaimer text (back when I was reading eBooks on my Palm III) for space. It would be a violation of the Project's agreement to upload them without it. And anyone can get them from the Project just as easily as I did. Plus, it seems that the supported formats here are closed (i.e. Sony and MobiPocket). So it doesn't seem like I have much to upload. |
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I used that as an example of how MobiPocket has control over who can do what since they control the format and won't publish the full specifications of their format. |
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I'm sorry, but Open Office is a closed program. It will not run on a VAX running VMS. So it's no good. It's too closed. Do you have something that will run on a VAX with VMS to make ebooks. If not, I'm afraid, what you have is closed. I hope you know that you've chosen to use a closed program. It cannot run on a VAX with XMS, then well, it's just a closed format.
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