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Originally Posted by Robertb
I have experience with Word Perfect files, txt, rtf, prc/mobi, epub, and of course pdb. I have not had experience with fb2, ereader, lit, ???, ...
Dear AJ:
I think a lot of what we post on this form is just choice. Some people love EPUB as it appears to be the universal format of choice by the IDPF. Some find FB2 to be easier to work with. I will let others post their choices and why. Immediately, to my mind, comes the fact that EPUB gives you 9 font choices and works with Text-To-Speech. Some other formats will also do one or even both... but EPUB is a great start. PDF is little more than a picture of a page hopefully reflowed to fit. It does work with TTS.
I think the nicest thing is that the EZ Reader line has 20-21 formats and there IS a choice.
However, Astak's new eBook Store ( www.EZread.com) is ONLY PDF and EPUB to prevent download confusion and the store has the lowest prices. I think that is a plus for these two formats. |
Robert, I'm very pleased with my PP and aware of all it's capabilities. My question was
What is it about the different formats that people prefer over the other formats. We have people on here who do not have an ereader of any kind, saying they have how-ever-many books in a particular format and wish to keep that format over changing it.
I was just wondering what it is about their format that they prefer, and the best way to do that would be to have a comparison of the same book showing the different formats. Since I don't use .lit, fb2, ereader, etc, I was wondering if someone could provide a definitive difference in these formats.
I could certainly provide prc, epub, html, pdf, txt and rtf, but not the others. And I'm curious
about their reasons. (Who knows, they may could convert me...)
Thanks,
AJ