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Old 05-28-2008, 09:13 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by basschick View Post
actually someone called ereader sony's proprietary format... go figure!

anyway, after seeing how many sites both offer free ebooks in mobi format and sell all sorts of books in mobi format, i'm pretty darned impressed with mobipocket. i downloaded it on my pc to see it at work, and the reader is very intuitive and easy to use. on the other hand, if amazon keeps getting more and more books and publishers, kindle may well be - as someone said - the ipod of ebook readers.
Wasi t a post here on Mobileread that called eReader format Sony's format? if so, can you post a link?

One thing we are waiting on for the 505 is the next firmware upgrade which we think ma very well be supporting ePub and have better PDF display. The tools available make it quite easy to convert content for use with the 505. You can purchase some other formats and take them, strip the DRM and convert for the 500/505. The most popular is MS Reader format for stripping DRM and Calibre does a very nice job converting to LRF from MS Reader with lit2lrf.
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