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Originally Posted by Robertb
The LiteBook in 5, 6, and 9.7 inch will have Mobipocket format and that is all that is allowed on it.
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Both the Iliad and the Cybook have support for DRM-ridden MOBI, but they also support other formats providing they are DRM-free - so the LiteBook presumably could too. PDF is confusing because there are Adobe ebooks (always DRMed, and if these are really PDFs they are a very special kind of PDF), which clearly can't be supported on the LiteBook. What is usually meant by PDF, though, is standard unencrypted PDF documents that are widely used for technical books and scientific papers etcetera. The Cybook and iLiad both provide support for this kind of PDF.
The desktop version of Adobe Digital Editions supports Adobe Secure ebooks (sometimes called PDFs) and also Secure and DRM-free ePub ebooks. I'm not sure what level of support it has for standard PDFs. An unknown at present is what support the E-Ink version of Adobe DE will have for various file formats (and standard PDFs in particular). In any case, Adobe DE would make the Mentor a much more interesting device. It would complicate the "same software on both" approach, because if Adobe DE provides the standard PDF support on the Mentor this won't be available on the LiteBook.
The Kindle is essentially a single format device, so this approach is viable. Making the LiteBook MOBI-only, and the Mentor multi-format, makes a lot of sense to me. However, any software that is exclusively for DRM-free formats on the Mentor could be included on the LiteBook too.