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Originally Posted by gerraldo
Yeah, OK... (from this and other comments) now everybody knows you hate Mobipocket format. Can we keep it at that?! You say it's evil, I (and many others) like it and especially on the CyBook this is the only format that has never let me down.
Hopefully you soon can switch to ePUB and everything will be OK...  |
I think you two are talking about different things:
One side is that the format works and is well supported by the device
The other side is that the outlook on the future of a format is not good when it is not open, not liberally licensed and not even well documented so one knows which version does what.
I think that mobi works very well on the Cybook and convert most of my news feeds, e.g, into that format. But I have to agree with tompe on that it does not look good for the future of the format. Even a huge company like Amazon cannot change the direction the market is going (even MS has pretty much given in to the pressure and adopted an "open" format for their office software, although they are still trying to make it "not too open").
I think from tompe's perspective it's just the same as with your stating that you're an anti-drm advocate. You probably don't "hate" drm with a vengeance but you have excellent reasons to argue that drm is bad (with which I agree, btw) and that you would not want to use it - even if it works (for the time being).