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Originally Posted by ccccclark
This kind of sucks. I was told in a post that Mobipocket was the best format and now if I want a Firmware upgrade, I will have to go outside of the company I purchased the hardware from. I have not purchased a lot of books, but I'm glad I have found out about this now.
Switching formats mid-stream is just not an option and I really don't want to spend a bunch of time/effort converting formats, DRM-free or not.
I really like my EZ Reader, but I am becoming more than a little disillusioned with the entire industry. They really need to get their crap together. If I my e-library is going to become obsolete, I may as well either use the library or purchase paper books and at least sell them and recoup some of the cost.
Seriously.
My other complaints are general lack of quality with e-books. Many editing errors.
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While it does sort of suck, as you put it - it's not the industry's fault. It's the folks with the proprietary formats that insist on making things difficult for everyone. I'm not Robert, and I don't have to be nice about it to avoid stepping on toes.
Unfortunately, after having done some looking around, only purchasing DRM free content is not going to be an option for me, because I like to read popular authors and their new releases. This leaves me with choices - A. buy a proprietary reader, aka Sony or Kindle and not be able to read what I already have that is DRM free; or B. Buy an open format reader such as the EZ Reader and end up converting/stripping DRM from whichever format I'm forced to buy to get the books I want. Neither is an option I'm real happy with; but to get the best of both worlds, I'd need two readers, one proprietary one not and that's simply NOT in my budget.
But again... I don't see this as the industry's fault. I see it as the curse of DRM and proprietary formats.