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Originally Posted by radleyp
Please, all, forgive my ignorance: I had never used ereader on anything but a pda and my Q. Frankly, however, I don't understand this great enthusiasm for ereader which does nothing more than other readers, and of course leads, as do the others, to a multiplication of formats. On my Q now, I have ereader, repligo, mobipocket, adobe, and word. I think it's a mess! Granted I now do all my reading on my Kindle, I would like to know why having ereader with its own proprietary format is such a great thing. Do you all have a lot of ereader books in your library? BTW, from what I can see, they are more expensive as a rule than the Kindle's and there are far less available.
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eReader is one of the 4 main readers for eBooks on the planet. The others include Microsoft Reader (LIT), Acrobat Reader (PDF) and MobiPocket (PRC). (Amazon is catching up to these older readers but is really a MobiPocket reader with different DRM except its entirely new topaz format). Lots of people have books one of more of these popular 4 formats. In addition most MobiPocket readers and all eReader can read PalmDOC files which is the largest all free eBook format. eReader has the most flexible DRM of all the readers available as it is not tied to any hardware (it is tied to your name and credit card number). The worst offender in the format war is Kindle who created a new format within the last year and has two incompatible formats.
Lots of folks have eReader content as it has been around for many years like the other big formats I mentioned.
Dale