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Originally Posted by TheJohnNewton
If you have DRM free books why would you not be able to read them on a Kindle or Sony? Or was that a typo? They don't ONLY read DRM books. Heck I've had a Kindle for about a year and I've only purchased four books with DRM. There is so much out there drm free and/or dollar free (just look at this site) that I don't need to bother with the crippled drm junk.
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Because I have about six formats going....rtf, .doc, .htm. .lit, and .pdf, plus a few for palm. I've picked them up here and there or friends have found out about me wanting ebooks and sent me huge zip files full they've picked up who knows where. If I converted all of these (and there's about six gigs worth of them at the moment) it would take me forEVER. No, thanks. And as for crippled DRM junk, while I am in TOTAL agreement with the anti-DRM stand, most of what I enjoy reading is only available DRM'd unless I want to keep haunting torrent forums and getting it illegally, which I'd really prefer not to do.
The idea behind an ebook reader for me is the portability. I had to leave a library's worth of precious books in Texas when I moved, because I didn't have the money to ship them, and my ex sure wasn't inclined to do it either. I don't know what happened to them, but it's my suspicion they're in pieces in a landfill somewhere.
When I found ebook readers and ebooks, I decided if I went this route, I'd never, ever have to leave my books for not being able to ship them. Not to mention the allure of having anything I want to read readily available to me no matter WHERE I happen to be. Therefore, I want something that's the most versatile at reading the file formats I already have, without a ton of conversions, but also something that can keep up with what I buy in the future. That perfect device may not exist, but goshdarnit, I'm going to get as close as I can.
That's what I came here for, was advice about which one to buy to get as close as possible to that. I've gotten lots of ideas, lots of help, and lots of eye opening about what is truly out there and what is practical and what is not. However, it's still up to me to decide which device will work best for the purposes I (and only I) have decided I would like the device for.
Now... maybe I'm misunderstanding some posts somewhere, but I have gotten the distinct impression that while Sony and Kindle both do what they do VERY well, neither of them are really versatile about what formats they accept without a ton of conversion. If I'm wrong about that, I'm open minded and more than willing to be enlightened.