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Old 04-28-2009, 03:12 PM   #16
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If they do drop DRMed Mobipocket format, I hope they keep non-DRM Mobipocket support. But if even that goes, it won't be long before we have a really good Mobipocket->ePUB conversion. Having already de-DRMed my collection, converting to ePUB wouldn't be a great hardship.

I wonder what they'll do about dictionary support.
We do have Calibre to use to convert from Mobipocket to ePub. As for dictionary support, no idea as ADE does not support dictionaries.
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:12 PM   #17
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If they do drop DRMed Mobipocket format, I hope they keep non-DRM Mobipocket support. But if even that goes, it won't be long before we have a really good Mobipocket->ePUB conversion. Having already de-DRMed my collection, converting to ePUB wouldn't be a great hardship.

I wonder what they'll do about dictionary support.
We already have a good converter for Mobi2Epub. It's called calibre.
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:17 PM   #18
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We already have a good converter for Mobi2Epub. It's called calibre.
Actually, the program you'd want to run is any2epub.
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:23 PM   #19
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Lots of ePub ebooks and more to come...

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Hello Calibre, you have work to do.
What work? calibre has full support for viewing and interconverting MOBI/EPUB
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Good to see epub coming up, though I think right now a US customer is better off with the mobi firmware. (Though I hope that will change.)

I'm really curious to know when mobi went for DRM exclusivity though.
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What work? calibre has full support for viewing and interconverting MOBI/EPUB
running hundreds of books through the conversion process
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AFAIK they've always been that way for dedicated devices.
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What work? calibre has full support for viewing and interconverting MOBI/EPUB
Calibre is going to have to get to work actually doing the conversions since the Gen3 is going to be dumping Mobipocket in favor of ADE.
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AFAIK they've always been that way for dedicated devices.
You are right. It's an open secret...
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I seriously hope that there will be ways to still read non-drmed mobi files, I payed a lot of money on mobi-dictionaries and I don't think I want to live without them...
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Calibre is going to have to get to work actually doing the conversions since the Gen3 is going to be dumping Mobipocket in favor of ADE.
Ah, I get it
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If they do drop DRMed Mobipocket format, I hope they keep non-DRM Mobipocket support.
That's my hope as well. I can't imagine Mobipocket/Amazon to act this stubborn to lose one of the major current reading devices just to keep up their "exclusivity or death"-policy.

Sure, there are still a lot (A LOT) of PDAs and organizers out there which still are capable of displaying prc files, but if Bookeen drops prc support, the BeBook is AFAIK the only E-Ink reader left to support prc.

prc is still THE best selling format of my titles, but within this very first month, epub came in strong. Looks like the next Cybook firmware update will be some sort of turning point.
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That's my hope as well. I can't imagine Mobipocket/Amazon to act this stubborn to lose one of the major current reading devices just to keep up their "exclusivity or death"-policy.

Sure, there are still a lot (A LOT) of PDAs and organizers out there which still are capable of displaying prc files, but if Bookeen drops prc support, the BeBook is AFAIK the only E-Ink reader left to support prc.

prc is still THE best selling format of my titles, but within this very first month, epub came in strong. Looks like the next Cybook firmware update will be some sort of turning point.
No there is the Kindle, and I think that Mobipocket and Amazon have nothing to think about the Gen3 since they have the Kindle.

So it's really for real, Bookeen made an ePub version? I really hope that it will support Mobi and ePub for the public firmware... (The book series I read actually is only available in mobi and I doubt that it will be available in an other format one day...)
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