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Old 08-25-2010, 03:48 PM   #141
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Originally Posted by Nathanael View Post
We may simply be speaking different dialects of English here, but I'd never heard five referred to as a "plethora" before. Heck, FBReader supports three times that number. And if that doesn't do it for you, there's always FBReaderJ, which should run on just about anything with a JVM.

Of the dozen or so cellphones, laptops, desktops ereaders and sundry reading-compatible devices lying around my house, the Kindle app only supports one. FBreader supports seven, and half the rest have their own built-in ePub support.
FBReader is certainly able but to what end. It doesn't read DRM. When you buy a book from Amazon you now have the option to read it on Kindle for PC, Kindle for iPhone and Kindle for Android, this opens up a whole lot of new platforms to read on. This is why I don't think Amazon is anyway near to loose there market share. That and the fact that they're still pricing there e-books at very competitive prices.

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