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Originally Posted by HarryT
That is correct for DRM-protected books, but the vast majority of my books don't have DRM. It's not from the DRM perspective that I like MobiPocket, but from the viewpoint of not having to change the format of all my books if I buy a new device.
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Then lrf or mobi won't really matter - I'm sure Kovid will finish lrf2html sooner or later. As long as you can go from proprietary file to some intermediate well-known open format you're safe.
And at some point you are either going to encounter/want a device that doesn't have mobi, or (in the longer run), the format is going to be superceded by something that is better and offers something you really want. And like Kovid says, it is not like both formats are perfect - lots of room for improvement.
But in a larger sense, this is why open well-documented formats are important - because it will enable someone in the future to build something to parse it and access the contents.