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Originally Posted by All4Fun
Because I'm ignorant and still relatively new to the site, why are you a fan of the ereader format?
For now, I've been reading ebooks exclusively on my blackberry using the eReader software and Mobipocket Reader. Although I own books in both formats, I seem to enjoy the experience better with the Mobipocket Reader. I can't quite explain why and my opinion is really subjective.
Although perhaps taboo, I find that the ability to strip the DRM off of a Mobipocket ebook straight-forward to do allowing me to convert to other formats for any ebook reader that I may own in the future.
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Your not alone. I too prefer mobipocket over eReader. MobiPocket has vast experience developing eBook Readers and just seems to do a great job with creating readers for their customers.
As for the MOBI file format, ePub might be the open standard, but MOBI still remains the de-facto standard.
In the end I think both products are great but I still perfer MobiPocket/MOBI over Fictionwise/eReader
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Originally Posted by TallMomof2
The one good point about the eReader format is that it's not locked into a device. As long as you can load the eReader software onto a device you can read any of the DRMed eReader format books. The key is the last eight digits of the credit card you registered at the site. It doesn't even have to be the card with which you purchased the books. As long as you keep a backup of the file and know the card number you'll be able to read that file.
With MobiPocket and Adobe DRM schemes the files are encoded for a particular device or sets of devices. If you no longer have that device then you cannot read that file. Vendors usually allow you to register three or four devices with MobiPocket and as long as the vendor is in business you can keep changing the devices. But if the vendor shuts down the server (for whatever reason) you are locked into the devices that are already registered. So your backups will continue to work on your registered devices. You get a new PC, PDA, ebook reader, or cell phone and that requires you to register its unique PID in order to get a file that you can read. If the vendor's DRM server is no longer up then you can't register your device. Your options are to either repurchase the ebook at a different vendor or remove the DRM.
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Good point but the other side of the argument is that eReader requires a valid credit card. What happens if you no longer have the credit card? You find yourself in the same situation? What's worse is what if you've bought several books over the years with different credit cards, now you have to maintain a list of which books where authenticated with credit card 1 ,2 etc..
Also eReader is tied to one company. That means the eReader client and the eReader eBooks are all tied to one company, a double whammy if that business goes out of business, or now that B&N owns them they decide to shut down that division.
Though I do prefer MOBI, I'm not arguing mobi is a better solution, I'm just pointing out that there are two sides to every format every one has their strength and weakness.
.... AND the culprit always comes down to DRM.
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