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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I have to say of all the formats out there at the moment, I think I am least interested in supporting Mobi/Kindle. They don't support Macs, iPod touches or Linux (despite the fact that must of the devices using Mobi, use Linux).
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Mobi has announced plans for an iPhone/iTouch port. Lack of support for OS/X
is inexplicable. Since the iPhone/iTouch apparently use a mobile version of OS/X, we may see Mac support, too. It would be nice...
Mobi actually did release an alpha of the command line Mobigen book creator app for Linux, and have a Java version of the reader for mobile devices, so a Java reader for Linux is a possibility.
Mobi's problem is being a small shop with limited development resources. There are an assortment of platforms it would be nice to have Mobi running on, but who is going to do the port?
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eReader on the other hand supports most platforms except linux but it currently doesn't have a dedicated device. If it gets one, count me in.
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It has the most friendly DRM scheme, but content creation is a bit more problematic. Mobipocket essentially uses encapsulated HTML. eReader uses PML, which is an unrelated markup language. The DropBook command line eReader book converter is free, but you have to have PML content to feed it, and automated solutions for creating that are scarce. (There is a Word macro package or two that will generate a PML file from a word document.)
Mobi Creator is freeware, and can take Word documents, PDF files, HTML, and text files as input and spit out a Mobi file. Some things work better than others (PDF conversion is erratic), but it's possible to feed Creator a source file and get a Mobi file without doing anything to the source file. eReader takes a bit more doing.
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Dennis