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IN the late Precambrian, when Personal computers were becoming popular, I Was sure my TI-99/4A was the cuttingist-edge since the stone knife. Then I traded up to a Coleco Adam(TM), and in turn, a Commodore 128, Atari ST, a Mac Classic, and a series of Win-boxes.
I couldn't even take the cassettes from the TI-99, put them in the Adam, and expect a positive result, nor when I started using computers that took the same size discs, could I take data from one computer to another ("peer-to-peer" was still directions for boating).
I believe that, at some point, the virtual dust in the eBook world will settle, and one format will reign supreme, just as it happened in the computer world. There will be pretenders to the throne along the way (Does any body still use CP/M?) Meanwhile, reading enthusiasts will engage in often heated debate about the best reader, the best format, the details of reading an actual, physical book that are missed or poorly synthesized when using a particular reading device, et cetera, ad nauseum.
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