[Kumabjorn]

Sorry if this has been thoroughly debated before. If that is the case, kindly ignore.

I see a lot of hard core positions on content format. Seems as an eRader user I have to be either pro or con. Well, I'm just indifferent. I simply don't get it.

It reminds me of the old PC vs. Mac camps. Is it inherent in new technology that it requires a theological dimension?

As a Kindle owner I have been deeply involved in all the threads about shipping woes. I noted today that Sony has announced new models. Great. More competition, more choices. And immediately there are all these posters lamenting lack of support for either format. One writes "if I didn't have xxx number of ePubs I would get a Kindle, I know I can convert them in Calibre, but it takes too long" and there are several posts along this line. While Kindle owners lament the inability to borrow from e-Libraries because the have all their books in ePub format.

For some reason I can't get annoyed at either Sony or Amazon, but I can see being annoyed at the vendor/provider who doesn't offer books in both formats. And why be tied up by the books you already have, isn't it more important to focus on the books you have yet to read? The new content you will get your grubby little hands to click on from now on and forward into the future?

I guess I might be an heretic, but then again religion has never done anything for me.