Thread: Astak Mentor eBook readers with WiFi and Touchscreen (read-only)
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Old 08-02-2009, 01:26 PM   #3043
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Originally Posted by emellaich View Post
Still trying to straighten my mind out regarding mobipocket support on the pocket pro. I believe it will support non-DRM prc. What about non-DRM .mobi?

I know that some folks will enable a choice of DRM mobi or ADE based on the download of alternate firmware. However, I believe that the pocketpro plans are not to support DRM mobi. Is that correct?
MobiPocket uses the extensions .prc and .mobi interchangeably, so the Pocket Pro will support DRM-free MOBI. So far as I know, there will never be a Hanlin V5 firmware supporting MobiPocket DRM.

I have tried the DRM-free MOBI support in the latest EZ Reader firmware (the one with mobile ADE), and it works well with 3 font sizes and a choice of fonts (no landscape mode). The firmware for the Pocket Pro will presumably be very similar. In any case, once ebooks are DRM-free, they can be shifted to other formats using Calbre so you have the option of switching MOBI off-line to FB2 or ePub.
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