I recently discovered the author Fiona McIntosh as a result of a HarperCollins free ebook from last summer that I finally got around to reading. So now I want to buy more of her books and went to the HarperCollins website. I can buy the 3 books I am interested in for $19.17 ($6.39 each) and download in one of these formats: Adobe ePub, Adobe PDF, Mobi, and LIT.
We know we can scratch the PDF and Mobi formats for my Sony Reader 505, especially as the it is clear that ebooks are DRMed. So My choice is between ePub and LIT, and I'm asking advice.
Today I'm using the Sony 505 to read ebooks, but i don't know what I will use 2 years from now. My thought is to download the ePub versions, thinking that ePub is the standard for the future for reading devices (at least as best as we can guess). OTOH, if I download the LIT versions, I can run ConvertLIT and Calibre.
So I would like some advice:
- Would you download the ePub versions or the LIT versions if you wanted to be able to read the books on future devices?
- Do I understand correctly that if I download the ePub versions I cannot share the books with my son who uses another device, but I can if I download the LIT versions and ran ConvertLIT and Calibre?
I've not purchased an ePub version of an ebook before so this would be my first experience with DRMed ePub, thus my questions and caution.
Thanks.