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Originally Posted by tompe
Open source is not the important thing. The important thing is open protocols and open formats. When you have three readers you use in different situations you will not buy a Kindle book that can only be used on the kindle since you want to be able to switch readers and use the net to exchange position information.
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I'm not sure I understand this. If you have three different readers, and have certain situations where you use one over the others - why isn't the type of eBook that you're reading one of those "situations" that would determine which reader you would be using? If you buy a Kindle book, that's a situation where you use your Kindle; a Sony book, a situation where you use your Sony. Alternatively, if you're reading a technical manual, I'm sure that you'd want a device with a 9"+ screen - and maybe colour; if you're just reading a novel, you'd want a smaller (6") screen for portability and convenience and wouldn't care about colour. So - if you have multiple readers anyway, I don't see why you have to stick to a format that all of them can read equally.