Thread: Which one should I get now?
View Single Post
Old 01-19-2015, 03:40 PM   #106
rcentros
eReader Wrangler
rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.rcentros ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
rcentros's Avatar
 
Posts: 7,894
Karma: 52566355
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Boise, ID
Device: PB HD3, GL3, Voyage
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Just because Mobi is sold outside of Amazon does not mean it's not obsolete.
It does if you actually take into account of the meaning of the word "obsolete." But I don't even care about this anymore -- call .mobi "obsolete" if you want. As long as I can still read this format on my Kindle and obtain books in .mobi format, I'm a happy camper. (And I have nothing against ePub either -- I've got four ePub readers. I'm not in either "camp.")

The fact that O'Reilly and many other publishers sell KF8 (and .mobi) formatted books, absolutely means that the Kindle is not a "closed system." (Neither is Kobo, by the way.)

I wish that, when someone asks which eReader they should buy, the "closed system" claim (for any of these readers) would just go away. There are lots of other comparisons that are valid -- why does the water always have to be muddied by one claim that isn't valid?
rcentros is offline   Reply With Quote