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11 Oct 2024 01:21:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Is Kindle just another Zune?  
From: Darren New
Date: 5 Jan 2008 19:21:37
Message: <47801f11$1@news.povray.org>
gregjohn wrote:
> Book readers: will proprietary format wars ruin them, too?  I'd be tempted to
> get an Amazon Kindle or another of of those electronic book readers if i could
> be confident it didn't require proprietary windows/mac software, and could take
> just about anything from say the Project Gutenberg website. (Anything txt, html,
> pdf, etc).

My understanding is you don't need proprietary software, and you can put 
plain text on them just fine. This from someone who owns one, but I'd 
suggest finding a copy of the manual before buying. :-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.


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