[yunti]

I have been trying to get into ebooks for a while now but it's seems limited software and DRM have been getting in the way.

I did previously have an Iliad but got rid of that because the software was so broken.

For me reading ebooks must have:
- the ability to look up words with a built in dictionary
- takes notes/annotations, highlights etc...
- be able to read those notes etc... while reading ebooks on different devices.
- be able to purchase ebooks from any ebook store and use it on whatever device I'm using and have the above features.

I'm currently using an ipad (and may purchase an ebook reader in the future).

There is quite a lot of good software on the ipad which has most of these features apart from being able to load DRM ebooks (unless purchased from that particular app). Only txtr seemed to be able to load DRM ebooks but it has virtually no features (no dictionary, notes etc...)

So it looks like the only option I seem to have is to purchase ebooks strip them of DRM and then use something like ibooks. However is there a standardised note format? What happens when I try to sync notes and see those on any future ebook reader I buy. Is there a way to do this as this is particularly important for me?

Also I had started buying a couple of books from the Kindle book store but these seem to be in a different format. I have now purchased a few from Kobo which seem to be in the Adobe DRM epub format, so presumably stripping the DRM means I can use it as I wish?
Are there any other good ebook stores that will also work? Any others like Kindle/Amazon that I should avoid?

Thanks for any help.