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Originally Posted by HPG
I guess, lurking under all this business of having to choose between a Mentor or a Litebook, is the format wars question: which format has the greater range of reading material (including the dreaded DRMed stuff): MobiPocket or eReader? I imagine this must have been debated to death elsewhere in these forums -- is there a useful synopsis anywhere than anyone knows about?
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It's all a matter of simple, logical deduction... I cannot read secure Mobi on my mac, therefore Mobi must have the better selection, right?
On the off chance some of you might want more empirical evidence, I did a quick search at BooksOnBoard.com, and they stock some 25k books for eReader and 80k for Mobi. Even Fictionwise, which owns eReader, stocks more secure Mobi books than eReader, though a smaller selection and much smaller difference (25k vs. 21k), however that may not be an accurate comparison as I do not know if they have finished incorporating all of the eReader stock into the Fictionwise site. The multiformat books at Fictionwise, downloadable in both these formats and several others, total 17k for both, of course.
This is hardly a comprehensive survey, of course, but since those are the places I shop, it'll work for me.
Jack