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Originally Posted by HarryT
The older CyBook (which I have) supported Mobipocket, so it would seem reasonable to hypothesise that this new machine will do so as well.
I wonder if they'll take the same approach as the old CyBook and provide a range of bookreading programs on it so you can choose which one to use? I really liked that approach! Especially because one of them was "uBook", which is my all-time favourite bookreader.
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The old CyBook ran Windows CE (right?), so there were multiple software e-book readers to choose from. For Linux there is really only FBReader, and the only DRMed reader is Sony's software currently tied to their hardware (Mobipocket requires Java to run under Linux). I, too, assume that the new CyBook will support Mobipocket, but I'm not sure how they will do this (add Java, or produce a native Linux reader, or switch to Windows CE). If the new CyBook supported MobiPocket DRM and FBReader it would be a killer device, well worth a small premium in cost over the Sony Reader. If they can get software vendors like uBook to produce Linux versions for the CyBook (and Asus Eee, etcetera) that would be even better.