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Originally Posted by JSWolf
While the Sony Reader will not read LIT or mobi formats directly, it's now become trivial to convert them to LRF so they can be read. And to be honest, there is no perfect device just yet. I've found that you wiull find ebooks not available in the format you want but available in other formats. Not every ebook is in Mobi format nor BbeB or LIT or even eReader. The only way to have a device do what you want is for epub format to take off and become available on all the readers.
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This is the reason my primary ebook reader is still my Thinkpad X41. I can read just about any ebook format you can name on it, and it even does a creditable job with PDFs. Being able to read .chm (Windows HTML Help) files is very useful in my field (computer technology books) and it's unclear how broadly the dedicated ebook readers will implement .chm.
Somewhere between Tablet PCs and something like the Adobe reader is where I expect to find the sweet spot. The Iliad seems to be closer, and I'm expecting to get one in the near future.