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Old 08-01-2009, 10:47 AM   #16
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I'm one of the don't-want-single-format people; while I'd like all ebook readers to read all formats (erm, or many popular formats; I don't feel slighted that my Sony doesn't read Tealbooks or TeBR formats), I don't believe one format is every going to be perfect for every type of ebook.

I certainly don't want to eliminate the .txt file as an ebook format, even though it's very limited; I don't want readers to lose the ability to read .txt even if all commercial ebooks switch to ePub. And while I agree that .pdf has severe limitations, there are also things it can do that nothing else covers, and I don't want to lose those.

I'd like it if all commercial novels were available in ePub, and Mobi while we're still doing the format wars. But I don't want other formats to vanish.
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