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Originally Posted by jswinden
Perhaps most of us here at MR, at least in this thread, are not locked down to any store with any reader we own due to our ability to strip DRM from our Kindle and/or ePub books. Then using calibre we can easily convert one format to another.
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No, you can not easily strip DRM from any file that easily. Nor does Calibre do a perfect job converting each book. I have come across books that looked perfectly fine as mobi files but were full of question marks once converted into epubs by Calibre. It finally worked with converting them into BBeBs with a different program but it certainly wasn't that straightforward.
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The average reader owner probably would have trouble stripping DRM and converting, either because of lacking the tech skills or even just not knowing that these options exist. And if they have trouble stripping DRM and converting, I should think they would also be tech challenged when it comes to transferring ebooks from one reader brand to another, for example transfer all their books from a Sony Pocket Reader to a Nook STR. I've never seen any reader that came with an easy import/export function for transferring books to another manufacturer's reader! Have you? So in my opinion, the average reader is locked into whichever device they buy, though not necessarily locked into the store associated with that device. Therefore JSWolf's old standby argument doesn't support buying Sony over any other major brand, as all major reader brands are going to be a challenge for the average user to transfer books to a reader manufactured by another company.
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Eh? With the Sony you simply copy all your epubs from your computer hard drive into the "books" folder on the Sony (which shows up as a USB mass storage device in your Explorer) and you are done. Can it be more simple?