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Originally Posted by Direct Ebooks
Ultimately what readers want is to be able to read any eBook , anywhere on any device. Thats it – no magic formula. No all-singing, all-dancing wireless life-changer. Just let us read!
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Only a minor disagreement with this-basically, if there's a device that will let me read any ebook, regardless of format or DRM, anywhere I am, then I'd probably buy it. (Providing it fits some subjective criteria, such as 'reasonable' pricing, 'comfortable' to read, etc. These could be met by providing various models of the same device, e.g. a pocket-size model & a large-screen model. The Kindle does this.) I'd even accept the capability being restricted to that 'device' as long as 'device' is limited to brand/model rather than a specific unit.(I.e. I wouldn't mind an ebook being limited to the Kindle if I could read it on any Kindle I owned, and if I could read any ebook, no matter where I got it, on the Kindle. There are some devices that meet the first criteria, but none that I know of that meet the second.)