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The tone of most of these replies seems to assume that the OP has or would be getting
a Kindle. My reading of the original post would be that the Kindle would not be his first
(or best) choice.
If the only or primary factor is format and DRM compatibility, then the Ectaco JetBook
Lite would be hard to beat. But - that would not likely be the case. There are a number
of other factors that go into the decision.
If he has developed his library of ebooks over a long period of time then there is a good
chance that a good number of them are in the .pdb format that Palm used for their PDA
eBook format and became widely supported before the dedicated ereaders became
popular. (The JBL supports .pdb and the Secure eReader DRM scam for it.)
The OP mentioned .pdf formatted books and it may be that "i have been slowly backing
up my actual home library" might indicate that many of the .pdf are home scanned image
based .pdf. Generally speaking, a 5" display, like the JBL's, is a poor choice for viewing
such files. I suspect that the 9.7" displays announced may be as small as you would
want to go, for frequent viewing of such files. Most smaller displays will require "panning
and scrolling" to view each page at a readable size.
Luck;
Ken
Last edited by Ken Maltby; 04-30-2011 at 03:54 PM.
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