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Old 08-18-2008, 02:21 PM   #20
pdurrant
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I use Mobipocket for historical reasons - it was the best option when I started out on a Sony Clie SJ-10.

It would require some significant development to make me switch formats now, although I'm sure that at some point in the future I'll switch to a new format.

By that time I suspect there will be very simple tools for converting from Mobipocket to the new format, as Mobipocket is, essentially, just a wrapper around an HTML dialect.

I wouldn't be surprised to lose my dictionary. But that's one book out of hundreds, probably thousands by that time.

As for DRM - before this year, I last bought a DRMed eBook in 2004. And I'd bought less than 10 at that time. But since a Mobipocket DRM removal tool became available this year, I've bought over 100.

Unencrypted Mobipocket is future proof, as well as having a nice reader for most platforms. Now that there's Stanza available for non-DRM Mobipocket on Mac OS X I'm even happier with my choice.

Paul

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I look forward to hearing what people have to say regarding mobipocket :P
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