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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
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?
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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
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.
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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.)