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Originally Posted by apastuszak
So, I've doing a lot of work with Calibre and Aprentice Alf's plugin, decrypting books and converting AZW3 to ePUB and vice versa.
Looking back on the start of all this, I wish I had just ordered the Kindle 2 for my wife. That way we'd be on the same platform.
Does anyone else have 2 different brands of eReader in the family?
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In reverse order... :P
Not two different brands in the family, but multiple devices for me. In active use I have a Sony PRS-T3s and Amazon Kindle PW2. I also have a Sony PRS-505 (for any remaining LRF files I have) and a BlackBerry Playbook (running Kobo app and an ePub reader app). I also have Aldiko installed on a Nexus 4 and BlackBerry Z10 phones for when I'm trapped in a long line up.
I've been reading almost exlusively on electronic devices since the first USR Palm Pilot so to me, my library and book collection is much more important than any particular reading device or ebook store.
There doesn't seem to be any benefit to me in sticking with a single ecosystem. The best argument I have heard for it is syncing your last-read point across multiple devices, but I never used a bookmark with paper books, so I have no problem flipping back and forth a bit to find my place in ebooks when I've switched from ereader to phone and vice versa.
I don't understand why you want your wife to be on the same platform as you are if she is happy with the way that Nook works. It sounds like a bit of "I know best".
If it is only that you want to have shared libraries, well, your liberation and conversion tools can help you out with that. Or are you saying you find that to be too much work?