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Originally Posted by Bittybye
I've never had anything to do with the Kindle, but I won' buy books that I can't transfer a book to another device. And since I don't know, nor care to know how to strip DRM, ePub is the only logical choice for me.
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The logical choice is to learn how to remove DRM (it's really very easy) and to immediately remove it from any book that you buy. That gives you the freedom to easily transfer the book to any device you might buy in the future.
It's very hard to predict the future. Five years ago I would have said (in fact I
did say!) that Mobipocket had the market sewn up, and that no matter what device I might be reading on in 5 years time I would be confident that it would support Mobipocket. But now ePub (which didn't exist 5 years ago) is the dominant format. It would be a brave man indeed who could say for certain what the dominant eBook format is going to be in 2020, for example.
The important thing is to have all your books in formats that can easily be converted to other formats. Both ePub and Amazon (Mobipocket) books satisfy that criterion once one has removed the DRM from them.