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Originally Posted by radius
That's funny because I would pay *extra* to get good source material. With an easily editable file, you can do anything you want with the book. If you "lock" it in to a particular format you lose flexibility. How is that better?
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Well, I'm not intimidated by the conversion software. In fact, I have been known to prepare some books for upload here at MobileRead; starting with text or HTML from Project Gutenberg. It's just that when book #1 was first offered here at MobileRead, they got a *lot* of feedback that people didn't want PDF files and that it should be easy enough to produce proper versions for the various readers. In fact, several folks here even volunteered and performed the conversions. And, when I downloaded the free version, I picked up the Sony .lrf file, which I read on my Sony 505. My expectations were to find similar eBook formats for the others in the series. Instead, I got a Word .DOC file. I'm not unhappy enough to return it for a refund, but I did want the folks from the site to see that I'm disappointed that they didn't appear to learn from the earlier discussions. The big advantage, however, is that the file I received is DRM-free!
I'm going to read the books -- don't know if it will be on the Sony reader or the Kindle yet. I'm looking forward to enjoying them as much as I did the first one. And, I'm grateful:
1. for being introduced to a fun series that I might not have discovered otherwise
2. for being offered electronic versions instead of having to fork out for paper books
But, in no way do I consider Word .DOC files to be an "eBook". Hence my comments on getting source code instead of a book