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Originally Posted by astra
I have got a question.
Why eReader format it widely spread?
I mean why it didn't become de facto format for ebooks? Someone said it has the best DRM format. It doesn't depend on h/w at all.
Does it have some limitations/drawbacks that stopped it from being the best ebook format?
It is just I got into a discussion where I expressed my views on DRM infected ebooks and I was told that eReader is a lot better and doesn't depend on h/w. I wonder where is the catch?
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No eink devices support eReader with DRM for one thing. And then there is the formatting for most commercial eBooks... no indents and paragraph spaces. While that may look ok on a small PDA screen, it look terrible on a 6" screen.
Another issue is actually making eReader format eBooks from other sources. It actually is somewhat difficult to do so. There is work going on now to hopefully allow Calibre to handle eReader format, but as already said here, it does have it's limitations.