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Originally Posted by HarryT
LIT appears to be something of a "de facto" standard on the "dodgy eBooks" Usenet Newsgroups; that's the only reason I can think of that people may want it. As you say, though, it's trivially convertable to mobi, so there's really no issue either way.
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I have been reading ebooks for close to 8 years, first on PDAs and now on the Cybook.
With respect to the PDAs, I have loaded on my Axim all of the readers available, and for no particular reason I can point to, I keep going back to the MSReader. Might be the ClearType fonts (because I recognise that everything else is horrible and truly basic with MSReader, from the background color, which you cannot change to the primitive facilities of searching and I could go on and on), might be some imponderable, (it was after all my first reader, embedded in my first HP PDA) but that is my preference, at least on PDA.
I have therefore a lot of books in that format, some of which I still consult and which I am happy to let go or have the time to convert to prc.
Of course one can convert any format to any other format (DRM allowing), but
it takes time and may not be as easy as it seems to do it right, what with front page, other images, etc, etc.
If I take the reasoning to the extreme, I could use have one format only supported by my ebook reader, as long as I have the tools to convert any other format to this one. But it does not seem to me to be a good thing, from the commercial point of view.
That is why I think that the more formats are supported, the better. Look at BeBook support. I do not know whether the formats they support are actually well supported, the forums are not clear on that, but the number of supported formats is really big, almost nothing is left out.
This is not to complain about my Cybook, I am more than happy with it, but can one not hope for it to become better ?