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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I think that the most that the majority of people know about formats is you must get the correct format for your reader, or the correct software for your tablet. Kind of like hand soap. Hard soap won't work in a dispenser, and liquid soap sucks in a soap dish, but we are all able to use either and both wash your hands. And we can convert them to the appropriate soap format if we want to but most of us don't.
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The problem with this analogy is that soap is a consumerable, eBooks aren't. You have no need whatsoever for last week/month/year's soap to work with today's dispenser or dish, because that soap doesn't exist any more. However you do have a need for your prior eBook purchases to work with your current eReader. In a worst case scenario, the eBook retailer may have closed up shop (or for other reasons not allow you to download it in a new format) and your old eReader may have stopped working.
Soap and eBooks aren't so much an analogy as a massive
disanalogy.