Just wondering for those who download free books from the forum here or who buy multiformat books at Fictionwise, do you download the epub or the lrf version? I have been sticking with LRF since I started with those thinking they were the 'native' format and now I have a lot of books. But I am interested in 'future proofing' my collection as much as possible and am wondering if it might be better to either start using the epub instead or to take a weekend and re-download everything into epub?
Someone on another forum told me she has tried both and they look the same to her, one is not faster or slower or more or less stable or anything. So maybe epub is the way to go. Also, I think Calibre cannot convert LRF to epub by itself. Perhaps in the future it will so if Sony suddenly goes bust and LRF is no longer supported in future readers, Calibre might be able to fix my files and I will not have to redownload them. But that is an unknown
So, what would you do?
- Stick wit LRF because it is the Sony's 'native' file and worry about converting down the road only if need arises
- Start using epub but don't worry about converting stuff I already have---again, cross that bridge when or if I need to
- Epub is a great format to read on the Sony and more future-proof so I should convert and/or re-download everything now
My collection is about 300 books right now, a mix of multiformat fictionwise, free ones from here and 'liberated' ereader which I have HTML of and am less worried about converting since I have the original source material.