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Originally Posted by eschwartz
@sirmaru, just accept that you are not everyone and some people like to sideload. I may not remember it (???) but apparently, it USED to work just fine, so unless you are saying they deliberately blocked sideloaded ebooks, your statement is meaningless. And yes they do support competitor ebooks, the Kindle Drive is freely accessible and you can add whatever books you want.
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Of course you can load anything you want to the Kindle drive but Amazon, I am sure, has developed their Collection software for THEIR own eBooks, ONLY.
Why would they waste time supporting Sony or Apple eBooks? Why would Sony or Apple support Amazon? It would not make sense for any seller of eBooks to develop specialized Collection software to include competitors.
For that matter, when I used to read Microsoft eBooks on my PC, they never supported Adobe eBooks and visa versa.
The only way to get support for all varieties of eBooks is to use Calibre and Apprentice Alf.
If Calibre came out with their own eReader and marketed it on the internet, then those, who like side loaded eBooks from a variety of places, would have the perfect device to fit their needs. I wonder why they haven't done that yet. I definitely would be interested in such a device which would enable me to broaden my source of eBooks.