Thread: Do you actually NEED a dictionary on your reader?
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Old 08-07-2009, 01:23 PM   #103
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
(IMHO), the Kindle has built-in obsolescence due to it's AZW and lack of ePub. So buying a Kindle is like buying a singe core CPU based computer. I cannot see how Amazon will survive without adding ePub support. They won't make it outside the USA for one. By adding a dictionary to the 600, Sony has just upped the stakes and take away the biggest objection to ePub.
As per your assessment, ePub would be trivial to unseat from its current alleged rise.

Who knows... maybe in a year from now ePub devices will seem as future-proof as eReader format supporting ones.

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