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Originally Posted by yunti
I thought epub was pretty much the standard apart from Amazon seem to be ignoring it (which I suppose stops it being a standard). I'm not as keen buying from Amazon as it's a proprietary format which sometimes seems to occasionaly have formatting issues converting to an epub.
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I find it really amazing the number of newbies that stumble in here and proclaim they will never use Amazon because they are proprietary. Amazon is not the only proprietary vendor. But if you're going to strip drm, there's really no reason to avoid a particular vendor (except iBooks).
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Originally Posted by yunti
It seems there are 2 apps for the ipad that can load DRMed book, bluefire and txtr, which this could avoid the hassle of striping DRM. However although bluefire looks promising it doesn't seem to be there yet and missing simple features like inbuilt dictionary.
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Ah, but what
flavor of DRM do they read? There is not just one kind. Amazon has it, B&N has it, Borders has it, iBooks has it...
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Originally Posted by yunti
I think using Calibre with ibooks and given that most ebook stores seem to use Adobe DRM epubs will be the best option. (will need to remove drm though unfortunately). This will have the benefit of making it work with future devices - as abookreader mentioned which is definitely important.
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iBooks DRM hasn't been cracked. And I can't be sure, but I really doubt it's easy to use Calibre with iBooks. Apple likes it's walled garden.
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Originally Posted by yunti
(Also I find the ipad battery lasts amazingly well - as long as my iliad but that was a broken beta product so doesn't say too much. )
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I charge my Kindle about once a month, and that's with heavy reading. On the other hand, I charge my iTouch every other day, and that's with relatively light use.
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Originally Posted by yunti
Anyway I found lots of good information on these forums which has been a great help. Notes/annotations is the only sticking point
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Unfortunately, the only note-taking format I know of that stays with the book file is if you annotate a PDF... which isn't a good ebook format, and I'm not sure you can even annotate on a PDF using an iPad or other ereader.