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Originally Posted by jocampo
Hi mgmueller,
For your old purchases/books, what have you done with those or what are you planning to do? I mean, if you have ebooks from 2000 or so, format could be an old one or deprecated, unless PDF, no?
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A brief (and rough) overview of my purchases:
12/2000 to 4/2005 ca. 380
Microsoft .lit
Most of them in the first 2 years for my PocketPCs.
I've tried to re-vitalise .lit in 2004, but then PocketPCs basically already had been dead.
I can read unDRMed .lit for example on BeBook One. But mainly they are my reserve for now. Easily can be unDRMed for conversion.
10/2007 to 7/2009 ca. 250
Mobipocket .prc
After the "death" of PocketPCs, I've paused for about 2 years.
Then I've found the phantastic iRex iLiad (discussed here on MobileRead).
The .prc files easily can be stripped from DRM. I've done so for some of them and put them for example onto my Kindles.
I find .prc being a very handy format for conversion.
7/2008 to 12/2009 ca. 250
Sony .lrx
I'm eagerly waiting for the Sony app for Android, due still this December.
Else I can re-download most (all?) of them from Sony in .epub format.
I've already re-downloaded maybe 1/3rd of them, but for now I don't have any instance of the Sony reader software installed.
All those figures clearly show: The business model of Amazon, Barnes&Noble or Apple is working. I spend at least 3 times the amount for content in the very first year, as I've spent for the respective reader...
More later on...