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Originally Posted by athlonkmf
The point of the story is, there can be no "ebookreaderhype" as long as there isn't one widely accepted standard. And without a widely accepted standard no company can include enough convertingsoftware, because that's simply too expensive. They have to develop it themselves (and the connect reader already does it's stuff for DOCs). So until then... be satisfied with the efforts of the community.
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Yes! You are completely correct. There can be no hype until there is a standard.
And one of my gripes with Sony is that they blew their chance to make a standard. If they had chosen to use an existing DRM format instead of creating their own, that would have become the standard.
A little background: I am a computer science major at public university. I just finished my bachelor's and am now working on my master's.
Last night I started thinking about how I would write the conversion software. If we had the specs for the input and the output formats, creating a one to one converter is not that difficult. It's on the level of a programming project in a certain senior level CS class.
I would like to add that I don't mean to trivialize KovidGoyal's work. I deeply respect and admire him for taking the time to write the conversion software. I also admire him because he had to work blind; we still don't know the specs for lrf.