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It has nothing to do with Linux. It has to do with the wish to use free software.
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That is your wish, and I respect that, but more than 90% of the people don't know or don't care. They want something that works for them.
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Since the format can be changed anytime this is not robust.
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That is true but not relevant. If the format of a mobi file is changed, it is not a mobi file anymore and no software at all can read it, not even Mobireader The same is true for an MP3 file. If the format is changed, my Zen cannot play it. Simply because it is not an MP3 anymore
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I often have different version of the same book and they have the same meta information but different filename. It is then impossible to know which version you are deleting. You could argue that this is abnormal usage but when developing MobiPerl that situation occured often...
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That is true, but it is no problem with my Zen player. The software is quite capable of discerning the differences and will place the file somewere else, based on he differences in meta data. If I keep the meta data different I can give all MP3 files the name: Music.mp3
That is actualy the case on my Zen. I listen to AudioBooks a lot. And most of them are named Chapter1.mp3 Chapter2.mpr etc. They all end up in different places because the meta data says Harry Potter 1, Dark Tower 4, ....
That is the big advantage of using meta data and not a device/directory/filename system. You simply do not care what name it has and were it is located. The software will take care of that.
You do not delete dev1/eBook/Jones/Book1(version2) but you delete the book of author Jones with genre Romance, language Spanish and Creation Date-Time 12th of August 2008 17:00