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Originally Posted by covfam
With kindle books you hundreds of windows,blackberry,android ios phones, hundreds of android and ios tablets, on ipod touch and samsung galaxy mp3 players, as well as windows and mac pc's,laptops & Netbooks. the only limitation with the kindle books is you cant read them on other Ereader devices.
Also there is a tool called caliber that can be use to convert your books to just about any format you wish... for example most our whole kindle library is converted to epub and transfered onto my ipad and my wifes iphone and into Mantano on my samsung galaxy tab.
Dont get fooled into thinking epub is all universal while theoreticly its universal, there are 3 seperate DRM's being used with the epub format. Barns and noble has thier own DRM, Apple uses fairplay Drm, and Adobe ADE is another form of epub DRM and not every device will accept each of the drm's now if you wish to use a tool like caliber to strip the drm from the books then you can have truly open epub format but then again you can do the same thing with kindle books.
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That's rather irrelevant to the fact that you still can't ever buy any other brand device, and new Kindles and Kindle apps may not work with old ebooks in the future.
I'm assuming someone who plans to stick by the side of the supported e-store is not interested in playing format gymnastics in Calibre. While this is certainly good info to have, I'd recommend something that requires LESS messing about over something that requires more. The highest safety of content with the lowest amount of work. What you're recommending is the most work possible.
Every other major ereader, including Kobo, also has a plethora of mobile apps. This is not a "Kindle thing" that you couldn't get from somewhere else. There are also plenty of non-device specific apps out there.
The DRM scheme has nothing to do with the Epub format, and it applies to any format. Kindle is subject to losing support when their DRM's go under just like Epub books are. As far as compatibility, if the OP was comparing the Nook, I would certainly mention that their DRM can't be read on other devices. That is not a problem with the format though - it's a problem with the DRM. This is a completely separate issue, and one affecting any format equally.
What's funny about it is that the Nook's exclusive DRM is designed to stop people from using any device by theirs. You think this is a terrible thing with an Epub reader (even though it has nothing to do with the format), but you don't see that Kindle is doing the exact same thing by using a format that can't be read on anything but a Kindle?
They're doing the exact same thing, just in slightly different ways.
And if you want to avoid DRM? The Kobo store is the only one amongst them that tells you in plain English whether a book is DRM'ed or not.