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Originally Posted by Musicman
I guess the limitations are only limitations depending on what you are reading.
I have beem using Ereader for a long time and I do not have any problems whatsoever with the reader. Granted there are no pictures in the books I read, so that may be the difference. Maybe this limitation you speak of is why they are adding Epub support.
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I like eReader for novels, but I understand it's got problems with images, and for anything where complex formatting matters. It's not good with tables. It can't switch fonts, so it won't work for coding manuals and would have problems with mathematical formulas. I don't think it can wrap text around images or do drop-caps at the beginnings of chapters.
It's fine for basic reading, and I've read hundreds of eReader books. But there's a lot it can't do, a lot of features that can't be included at all in the format, and converting from it won't add those features back in.
It's a great format for novels--it allows all the standard formatting, and it has great file compression. It's less great for textbooks, where good images may be important. It's worthless for books that require complex layouts, like scientific equations or detailed tables. EReader's just not an all-purpose ebook format, and I suspect that's why they're wanting to add ePub, which is much more versatile.