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Originally Posted by cobalt8
Again, I agree with you. I was SO close to getting a Kindle. I had accumulated $150 in gift cards over Christmas to be used towards the purchase. However, Amazon's behavior has definitely turned me off and it caused me to start looking at all of the other offerings in the ereader world.
As far as the firmware goes, I'm 99% sure that you can use the BeBook firmware with the EZ Reader. There are plenty of threads on this site that talk about the ability to use BeBook or Hanlin V3 firmware openly between the rebranded Hanlin V3 devices. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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No one corrected you, so I'm betting you're right. I thought I was a computer geek before I got to these forums, but I find that I have no idea exactly what functions a device's firmware covers. Is that part of what determines what formats a device will read? I've seen some conflicting results on upgrading the BeBook's firmware with the latest release too, not to mention that no one seems to have a definitive answer on whether BeBook handles DRM'd Mobipocket books with this latest firmware.
In another thread, someone who had a BeBook posted that although it does a lot of formats, it doesn't do many of them well. That gave me pause; so I'd like to hear from other BeBook owners about that issue.