as far as i know, and i'm very new, no other reader can read kindle files but kindle, sony files but sony, and except for the iliad, i believe - and would LOVE to be wrong - that only the cybook can read protected mobipocket files.
i read an easy 3 - 4 books per week. after 3 or 4 years, that will represent an investment i'd hate to have to make all over in order to read the same books i've already often rebought from paper to electronic form.
i've been surfing ebookstores all day. i see that protected mobipocket seems to be everywhere with the authors and titles i want. but bookeen is a small company - in 5 or 6 years, i could have to replace my entire elibrary if they fold.
and yet, that could happen with the sony or the kindle. this is why i hadn't gotten a reader before.
am i paranoid? microsoft did discontinue their reader, and i've seen other types of proprietary product lines suddenly retired in the course of my work. what really annoys me is that i have read everywhere that amazon owns mobipocket.com yet the kindle can't read protected mobipocket because they are pushing kindle with everything they have.
i hate proprietary formats
