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MR. Pockets · 10-10-2010, 12:51 AM

Well, Project Gutenberg only offers non-DRM, free ebooks. (Books that are in the public domain mostly.) So, if you download in Kindle format (mobi) you should be able to redownland all you Gutenerg books for free in a different format (assuming Gutenberg is still there.)

I am not an expert, but most people agree that epub is the better format. It is also a much more widely accepted format than mobi (in the U.S. I'm not sure about elsewhere.) so it would be a pretty safe format to go with (Nook, Kobo, PD Novel, jetBook, Libre, etc all support DRMed & non DRMed epub). TXT will also (most likely) be around for a good while, but it has pretty poor formatting. I used it for most of my books, 'till my Lbre got better epub support, and it was fine for novels and other similar books, but I doubt it would work for poetry.

10-10-2010, 12:51 AM	#3
MR. Pockets Addict Posts: 216 Karma: 4320 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Idaho, USA Device: Kobo Touch, Aluratek Libre Pro	Well, Project Gutenberg only offers non-DRM, free ebooks. (Books that are in the public domain mostly.) So, if you download in Kindle format (mobi) you should be able to redownland all you Gutenerg books for free in a different format (assuming Gutenberg is still there.) I am not an expert, but most people agree that epub is the better format. It is also a much more widely accepted format than mobi (in the U.S. I'm not sure about elsewhere.) so it would be a pretty safe format to go with (Nook, Kobo, PD Novel, jetBook, Libre, etc all support DRMed & non DRMed epub). TXT will also (most likely) be around for a good while, but it has pretty poor formatting. I used it for most of my books, 'till my Lbre got better epub support, and it was fine for novels and other similar books, but I doubt it would work for poetry. Last edited by MR. Pockets; 10-10-2010 at 12:57 AM.