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Originally Posted by theducks
ADE3 will be a (only new book) problem in the future. Hey, I have Laser discs. I understand that things move back and forth  |
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Originally Posted by CRussel
Really, you're way, way, way overstating the issues. I buy from Kobo regularly. I import them into Calibre, and sideload them to my Kindles. It is a negligible amount of extra work, since I do exactly the same with Amazon books I buy. Once the books are in Calibre, whatever format they're in, and have had their DRM removed, the rest is just the difference of one click or two. (The auto-conversion prompts you, the native book doesn't.)
Meanwhile, you can continue to buy books in ePub format, at least until the Adobe idiocy makes that problematical. Or start buying in AZW3 format. Where you don't have to deal with the Adobe issues.
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What I said was the truth, simpler really is simpler, but one extra conversion or not is a comparatively minor quantity of simple.
Also, I'd had my head in the sand with blind faith in EPUB, oblivious to news about ADE 3.0 and how it will affect EPUB and devices. Soon. Thanks for the heads up. I just learned a little here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=231939
Decided I'll play things by ear as things develop this year. If necessary, I'll shelter with Amazon devices for awhile to survive the storm, and maybe even stick with them if that is simplest in the long run. Buy AZW3s (which I already often do), switch Preferred Output Format from EPUB to AZW3. If I understand it all correctly, this is not a big problem from my ebook consumer point of view, just slightly annoying to have to deal with it.