With proprietary formats, when you obtain a novel for digital download from Amazon it will arrive in their own file format .AZW which only allows you to read it on amazon's wireless reading device. So if in the future, obviously after you have have checked out all the digital book readers for the latest model at the best price, you then decided you wanted to swap digital book readers to a different make, your library of e-books become useless. Make your own mind up if that's fair or not.

That scenario has been a large obstruction for the industry in common but also for the makers of other ebook readers in particular. They where never going to be able to offer the number of titles Amazon where competent of doing and so this helped sales of the Kindle . And so they present support for more file formats, mainly the Adobe .PDF, which is a favorite format for free ebooks, but this standard does not mimic a scaled down version of text too good as it was always supposed to be reproducing text at an A4 size, ideal for the DX and iLiad readers but not so for the smaller 5,6 and 7 inch displays.

For this reason came the Epub format, an open source format designed to display text. It is fast emerging as the format of the future and has gained support from the likes of Google Library who shall be releasing their total one million titles, of which the best part are free to down load, in this format. Barnes and Noble will also be doing the same as will the Sony-Store.

As a result you should see that any electronic book reading device that has backing for this format will be future proof. B&N's Nook Wireless Portable Reading Device has .Epub support, as does the Sony Daily Edition, and so you can down load your digitally downloaded books from anywhere you prefer, paid for or free, and not only from the manufacturer of the ebook reader device , which is the case with the Kindle 2 digital books reader.

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