Hi all, didn't want to start a war here :-) I'm sorry if my evaluation of the kindle product sounded unfair. I must say that I never played with a dedicated ebook reader, hence my only experience is related to using Android reader apps on mobile phones or tablets (mainly FBReader, but I also tested Moon reader and Aldiko on a few occasions). In fact, FBReader does exactly what I ever imagined an electronic book reading experience should be - connects to any (open) library, browse catalogs, fetch the book that suits you, and read. This is not possible on Kindle, unless one decides to stay exclusively with Amazon and their internal shop. Well, I guess my expectations were simply way too high. I like "open" things, which Kindle definitely is not. I didn't buy the Kindle, it was an unexpected present, that's why I knew so little about it. If I had to buy a reader, I'd probably look for a basic android device with an e-ink screen and google store support, and use FBReader on it (haven't checked, but might be that such thing doesn't even exist).
Anyway, the Kindle is a very cool hardware nonetheless - the screen is better suited to reading than what I ever had on any mobile phone or tablet, and the brightness is perfectly adjustable (on most phones, even on minimum brightness, it's still too bright to read comfortably in the dark).
Today I discovered in the Kindle's main menu that there is an "experimental" web browser that connects just fine to my home OPDS library (although it connects to its web interface, obviously), so once I implement transparent mobi export, I will end up with an almost perfect solution.
As for the superiority of one format over another, the ePub is an open format, and that's all it needs to convince me. I hope I won't be hunted by angry Daleks for saying that.
