Comments on: Review: MobiPocket Software http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/07/12/review-mobipocket-software/ Conversations with the Creators of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Thrillers! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:12:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: witchy http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/07/12/review-mobipocket-software/comment-page-1/#comment-606373 witchy Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:00:17 +0000 http://www.dragonpage.com/?p=2419#comment-606373 hello. I've been reading e-books for a few years now, and I love the mobipocket format best. (i know this is months later from when you wrote it) Fictionwise and My Book Store and More both have a list of books that you buy, that you can re-download if something happens to your copy. (You may have found this out already :) ) I've just now discovered the phones that you can read books off of, and can't wait till my current contract is up, so that I can get a smartphone :) Thanks for this info! :) hello. I’ve been reading e-books for a few years now, and I love the mobipocket format best. (i know this is months later from when you wrote it) Fictionwise and My Book Store and More both have a list of books that you buy, that you can re-download if something happens to your copy. (You may have found this out already :) )
I’ve just now discovered the phones that you can read books off of, and can’t wait till my current contract is up, so that I can get a smartphone :)

Thanks for this info! :)

]]> By: ereader http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/07/12/review-mobipocket-software/comment-page-1/#comment-425082 ereader Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:02:45 +0000 http://www.dragonpage.com/?p=2419#comment-425082 With regard to books in mobi format & longevity of device vs DRM-locked book - buy whatever format you like, rip to text/html/what have you and then convert to mobi. Voila - legal book you've paid for, plus ability to format &/or device shift. This is how they should do it in the first place. Dumb publishers. If you think this is somehow shady, suggest you go have a look at what Baen have to say. With regard to books in mobi format & longevity of device vs DRM-locked book – buy whatever format you like, rip to text/html/what have you and then convert to mobi. Voila – legal book you’ve paid for, plus ability to format &/or device shift. This is how they should do it in the first place. Dumb publishers. If you think this is somehow shady, suggest you go have a look at what Baen have to say.

]]> By: Suriehl http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/07/12/review-mobipocket-software/comment-page-1/#comment-402645 Suriehl Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:33:17 +0000 http://www.dragonpage.com/?p=2419#comment-402645 I use MobiPocket all the time. I read ebooks on my palm T5 and I love it. I actually can't remember when it was that I last read a book in hard copy form. Just the fact that I don't need a reading light is the great. I have a sony ereader that I don't use nearly as much. It's so much bigger than my palm pilot, and doesn't have a backlight feature. But I literally carry my palm with me everywhere, which means that I always have dozens of books in my pocket that I can read where ever I am. I use MobiPocket all the time. I read ebooks on my palm T5 and I love it. I actually can’t remember when it was that I last read a book in hard copy form. Just the fact that I don’t need a reading light is the great. I have a sony ereader that I don’t use nearly as much. It’s so much bigger than my palm pilot, and doesn’t have a backlight feature. But I literally carry my palm with me everywhere, which means that I always have dozens of books in my pocket that I can read where ever I am.

]]> By: Jason Penney http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/07/12/review-mobipocket-software/comment-page-1/#comment-397409 Jason Penney Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:02:30 +0000 http://www.dragonpage.com/?p=2419#comment-397409 Thanks for sharing your experiences. PDFs are a show stopper for me as far as eBook purchases go. They're great for locking down a layout that looks great when printed, but horrible for on screen reading (even more so when transferring to a dedicated eBook device). Any non-reflowable format is pretty much a dead end. My eyes aren't great, and they get a lot of work outside of reading for pleasure, so being able to resize text as needed is almost enough for me to give up print books forever. I think of buying an eBook as buying a book, and that's why I only buy ones that come in multi-format packages (where one purchase get's you all the formats). I'm really hoping the ePub format puts an end to all that. The goal for ePub is that a single file readable on whatever reader/PDA/phone/software/etc. you have (either by it directly rendering ePUB or having it convert on the fly when loaded). Then I can have the same file on my dedicated reader (which stays at home mostly) and my iPod touch (which comes with me more often). Also I won't have to worry about my reader dying, or loosing all my books when I upgrade to a better reader. As far as data loss goes. eBooks are pretty small. It's easier to have them all backed up to media in my fire safe then it is to stuff second copies of all my printed books in there. (unrelated, but what happened to the feeds? They aren't full content any more, but only the first paragraph or so. Is that going to be fixed? The font on this site is WAY too small for my eyes) Thanks for sharing your experiences.

PDFs are a show stopper for me as far as eBook purchases go. They’re great for locking down a layout that looks great when printed, but horrible for on screen reading (even more so when transferring to a dedicated eBook device). Any non-reflowable format is pretty much a dead end.

My eyes aren’t great, and they get a lot of work outside of reading for pleasure, so being able to resize text as needed is almost enough for me to give up print books forever.

I think of buying an eBook as buying a book, and that’s why I only buy ones that come in multi-format packages (where one purchase get’s you all the formats). I’m really hoping the ePub format puts an end to all that. The goal for ePub is that a single file readable on whatever reader/PDA/phone/software/etc. you have (either by it directly rendering ePUB or having it convert on the fly when loaded). Then I can have the same file on my dedicated reader (which stays at home mostly) and my iPod touch (which comes with me more often). Also I won’t have to worry about my reader dying, or loosing all my books when I upgrade to a better reader.

As far as data loss goes. eBooks are pretty small. It’s easier to have them all backed up to media in my fire safe then it is to stuff second copies of all my printed books in there.

(unrelated, but what happened to the feeds? They aren’t full content any more, but only the first paragraph or so. Is that going to be fixed? The font on this site is WAY too small for my eyes)

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