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Originally Posted by rireed3
I'd be careful if you expect that. Openinkpot supports HanLin V3. It can't be the same as the firmware that comes from BeBook on it's version of HanLin V3, because Openinkpot doesn't do DRM. BeBook's two firmwares alternatively support epub DRM or Mobipocket DRM.
Richard
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I'm quoting my own post because 'open source' poses another issue that I didn't think of at the time.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is, as you suspect being used by reader makers to lock in users. Sony isn't quite as bad because they have picked Adobe DRM which encrypts the epub format, and many book sellers outside the US distribute using Adobe DRM, so Sony readers aren't one-seller-only like the Kindle. By the way, Kindle always reminds me of "Farenheit 451"
It is possible to circumvent all the big DRMs outside the readers, but the readers don't usually have even the unencrypted versions of competing formats, so the standard firmwares of nearly all manufacturers have half or less of the the possible formats, regardless of DRM.
Openinkpot intentionally doesn't handle DRM'd files, but if fully implemented does all the unencrypted formats. BeBook has a fairly full implementation of Openinkpot, if I'm not mistaken, and I'm fairly certain you'd be able to flash back to a standard BeBook firmware if you didn't like Openinkpot.
So that's another approach for you to consider.
Richard