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Djehuty · 03-22-2009, 02:33 AM

In pondering which e-book reader to buy, it struck me that I may be approaching this from the wrong angle. Perhaps I should be asking: which e-book format is the best?

I had made up my mind to buy a Sony PRS-505, but it seems that ePub isn't a terribly popular format. Mobipocket seems much more widespread, but since Amazon now owns it, does that mean it's only a matter of time before it is completely absorbed, and all non-Kindle content is locked out?

So, what do the experts think? Which format is most likely to prove useful? Or, perhaps, is it true that none of them are really ready for prime time, so to speak? I may be looking in the wrong places, but I'm not seeing all that many e-books by known authors, except for Amazon's list of Kindle best-sellers.

03-22-2009, 02:33 AM	#1
Djehuty Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: none	Which format is the best? In pondering which e-book reader to buy, it struck me that I may be approaching this from the wrong angle. Perhaps I should be asking: which e-book format is the best? I had made up my mind to buy a Sony PRS-505, but it seems that ePub isn't a terribly popular format. Mobipocket seems much more widespread, but since Amazon now owns it, does that mean it's only a matter of time before it is completely absorbed, and all non-Kindle content is locked out? So, what do the experts think? Which format is most likely to prove useful? Or, perhaps, is it true that none of them are really ready for prime time, so to speak? I may be looking in the wrong places, but I'm not seeing all that many e-books by known authors, except for Amazon's list of Kindle best-sellers.