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Old 02-12-2018, 04:59 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
I don't understand the hang-up about formats. With Calbre it's easy enough to convert formats on the fly. You can have a disk full of ePubs and have Calibre convert them to mobi, KF8 or whatever Kindle format on the fly. I make kepubs of my books, because I like how Kobo handles that format better.

Who cares if a Kindle read an 'epub' so long as you can read your epubs on it?
Makes sense if all you have is your Kindle for reading your ebooks. I have

- mobile phone
- computer
- two ereaders in constant parallel use because they have different screen sizes that I use for different purposes.

I need to keep my ebooks in sync on all of them on the fly. I don't read for myself only, but I need to display to others, and when I add something on any random device, all other devices must be able to display it instantly. Given my situation, it is categorically out of the question to convert a part of my ebooks for one single device. Either the device can read it all or I simply won't buy it.

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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
But most Kindles you buy will come with a firmware you cannot jailbreak. Could even be no new Kindles will be able to be jailbroken.
Let's suppose so. So what? (Let's ignore for now that any time Americans launch an electronic device, the Chinese and Russians have already reverse engineered it a week earlier.)

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