I agree with those who think that RTF is a better choice for Sony Reader.
The only and most important reason is that you are not getting locked into a proprietary Sony format forever. The RTf you download from Baen will be
your book for a very long time. If you decide to switch to a different reader in the future, all you have to do is convert RTF to anything your new reader can understand.
So, even if there is a logic behind
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it shouldn't be _my_ job to fix the formatting on an e-book I paid for
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I believe you get more value for your money when you download RTF instead of LRF.
As far as complexity of creating books in BD. It might as simple as:
1. Start BD
2. Open RTF file in BD.
3. Go to Make eBooks/Sony Reader (lrf).
3a. In a Make Sony Reader file go to styles tab and set paragraph font size (if you like the output you will skip this step in the future).
4. click on make button.
Done.
Anyone who has enough knowledge to log in to this forum, post and edit their own posts over here, will have no problems to follow the instructions above and it will take no more than 5 minutes and after that you have 3 things: RTF for future. Last File folder with html0 file for future as well and LRF file for today.
Just 5 additional minutes gives you so much more for let's say $5 you paid for RTF than if you paid the same $5 for LRF.
I am not mentioning that any lrf files they or anyone else are going to sell or are selling right now could have a terrible formating that you might hate, with huge margins, small font etc., however, when you create lrf in BD by yourself, an additional ...maybe 20-30 minutes just one time "set-and-forget" settings such as margins and a few other bits will make your reading experience so much more satisfactory! (although it is not necessary and even default BD settings are very good.)