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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Some reasons to go with the 505 vs. the Gen3....
The Sony has better conversion tools overall. pdflrf, libprs500, and Book Designer. I know Book Designer also outputs Mobi format, but it does a better job with LRF output. The 505 is cheaper and since you plan on getting another eink device later on, you'll be spending less money now only to replace it later with something else. There are more free LRF format book here then any of the other formats.
If you want to make sure that any of the books you purchase now can still be read on your future device, you can purchase in MS Reader, strip the DRM, use lit2lrf to convert and you will have the DRM free LIT to convert to the new device if you want to use it to read your books.
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On the other hand, buy a Sony and you're stuck with a single company, who may not be in the eBook business at all in a few years time. Mobipocket is the
de facto industry standard - you can be pretty certain that in 5 years time you'll still be able to buy a bookreader which will support Mobi; I wouldn't say that about Sony. Using MobiPocket I can read the same books on my Smartphone, my PDA, my CyBook Gen3, my iLiad and my Desktop PC; no other book format even approaches it in terms of widespread device support.
Sure, you COULD download 1000 books for the Sony now, and then have the pleasure of converting them all into a different format in a few years time when you replace your reading device, but do you really want to?