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Originally Posted by Anarel
I'm not saying epub is bad, I understand that it fulfills the ebook reading necessities for many people.
My problem is the second coming of jesus attitude towards epub and derision towards the Kindle for not adopting the "industry standard" when "open epub" really only applies to public domain books. It's not open if there's drm on top of it that all epub reading devices have a different version of.
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Oops. My public library's e-book system, one of the mightiest on planet Earth, has ePubs and PDFs only. Sorry; I realize that Kindle owners may be less that sympathetic, but there are really a lot of us non-Kindle owners out here, and ePub is what works for us. Also, even if DRM can be applied to ePub, it's open-source. This is, for many of us, a good thing on many levels.
Oh, and I think the title of this thread is pretty inappropriate. There are quite a few points of view here, including supporters of several sorts of largely incompatible technologies. Calling the other party's perspective BS doesn't really seem to fit with the generally collegial atmosphere of this board.
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