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Old 10-14-2010, 02:00 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
They only would have needed to license adobe Mobile if they wanted to support DRM. The firmware on my existing Jetbook uses FB reader so it supports quite a few formats quite well.

That being said, I suspect that the limited format support is because they probably pared the processor and memory of the unit down to increase battery life. Not a bad trade off... if they had chosen ePub instead of .fb2. If you are planning on reading mostly PG books, you probably loose nothing. If you want to read newer works though, you have to depend on well Calibre supports .fb2 (its my understanding, maybe mistaken that .fb2 support while functional, is not a super high priority for Calibre).

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Indeed. Epub would have been a much better choice than FB2, which, as far as I know, is primarily used in Russia. At least, I've never heard of it before I came to this forum... (and I've been in the ebook scene for a long time...)
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