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Old 12-01-2009, 10:37 AM   #11
JSWolf
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I would love to know how everyone decides how they buy their eBooks regardless of being free or paid for.

A few questions:
  • When buying/searching for eBooks do you search by format or by eReader?
  • Do you know what format/s your eReader can read when searching or do you expect all eBooks to be read by your eReader?
  • Before you bought your eReader did you know about software to convert a format to your eReaders format? If you didn't would you have liked to have been informed by the retailer?

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eReader is a format. So searching by format or eReader is the same thing.

What I do when I am looking for eBooks is to search for what's available or something specific. Then I'll see what formats the eBook is available in and if it's one of the three I can deal with and the price is not too high, I'll buy.

I search for ePub first, MS Reader second, and Mobipocket third. I liberate the format from ePub and fix it up as I want and with the others, I liberate the DRM and then convert to ePub and sort it out and voila done.

Before I bought my first Reader, I did have a look on MobileRead and I did see Book Designer and libprs500. So I know I was able to convert some content to LRF to then be able to read. I was able to strip the DRM from MS Reader format and convert fairly easily. So I did have a good enough supply of eBooks.
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