[Kati Compton]

Let's try to stay away from insults here...

[Kati Compton]

Let's try to stay away from insults here...

[PetiteFlower]

Originally Posted by davidspalding

oh, for pete's sake. you said, "The ability and likelihood of anyone in the US suing someone for hosting something like C-Lit is pretty small, IMO, but the threat of it is enough to scare most providers into compliance." it has already happened, and the details are as easily available to you as a post here on ppcthoughts. www.wired.com. go search. here's a tidbit from May, 2002.

Ok I made a bit of a typo, but I really don't need the attitude. What I meant to say that the ability and likelihood of anyone in the US suing someone WHO IS OUTSIDE THE US for hosting c-lit is pretty small. And I didn't realize until just now that I left out that important bit. So that's why it mattered whether those who got sued were american or not. But there is absolutely no need to be a jerk, man.

[Gee Mont]

Originally Posted by davidspalding

... when you'll wise up and try another eBook reader?

I have looked into other readers and wasn’t awed with what I found. Mostly, I believe, the difference between readers is a matter of personal choice with a few exceptions.

1) There is, overall, more content available for LIT than other formats. That gives me more choices for reading material. That alone is a strong reason to say with the LIT format.
2) All my ebooks are already in LIT format.
3) Mobipocket looked retarded on my PPC with the OS banner tool bar placed at the bottom of the screen. I saw no demonstrable advantageous features over MS Reader IMHO. Auto scroll isn’t a feature I’d ever use.
4) Palm, at least on the Desktop edition, didn’t know how to properly format English text. It formatted text (on the public domain works I tested) the way you’d see it on Bulletin Boards. Again, I saw no demonstrable advantageous features over MS Reader.
5) Adobe can’t be read on PPC. Say no more.
6) uBook. The desktop edition failed to spark any real interest in exploring or pursuing its use.

Given all of the above, I think it would be a bigger pain in the derriere to switch ebook formats at this time. If circumstances change dramatically in the future, then maybe I’ll decide to switch. But what ever I decided to do it will not be based on a blind hatred of anything DRM or Microsoft.

[dh]

Ha Ha, we are right back where we started. The best thing to do is buy books in .lit format (because of the wide choice) then convert them to another format (because of the better readers and sucky MS DRM). :lol:

Not sure what you meant about the OS banner on the screen. I tend to read in MP in full screen mode.

I for one hope that there will be a way to get a new version of Convert Lit after the next MS update.

Update: Well well well, the old Convert Lit has gone, but there is a link there to a new one already.

[Steven Cedrone]

Originally Posted by Kati Compton

Let's try to stay away from insults here...

Originally Posted by PetiteFlower

But there is absolutely no need to be a jerk, man.

Thread locked...

Steven Cedrone
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