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This special format is the one that gives the best formatting. Even with this jumble of letters, you only need to worry about the preferred format for the reader. Don’t let this scare or confuse you all of the major e-book readers support multiple formats. The PRS line from Sony supports EPUB, LRF, LRX, RTF, PDF, TXT. The Kindle supports AZW, MOBI, PRC, AZW1, TPZ, TXT. The first thing you need to do is find out what formats your e-book reader supports. I’m not going to touch on those but they do exist. In addition to the above tools there are a number of harder to use, specialized programs.

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It is is a full e-book management application that can organize your e-book library, handle automated news downloads from a number of sources, and convert between a large number of e-book formats. Calibre supports the Kindle, the Sony PRS line, the Nook and a large number of other devices. Not to leave Sony users out in the cold, there is a more general tool that can convert between a large number of formats. Amazon also provides a conversion service that allow you to email them e-books which they will convert and send directly to your Kindle. For Kindle users, the Mobipocket Desktop is a good choice. Many easy-to-use tools exist for converting e-books. The EPUB format, from the International Digital Publishing Forum, is an industry standard intended to reduce these problems. E-books, being relatively new, are undergoing the same growing pains that Betamax and VHS or HD-DVD and Blu-Ray went though. This also allows them to lock users into their platform.

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They also have the benefit of being able to license their format for use by others. Many vendors like to have and control their own formats so they are not dependent on outside companies. These newer devices needed formats that can provide these features.Īnother major reason is exclusivity. They can display large images, and handle advanced formatting. Those devices were very limited in what they could display. A great example of this is the old books people read back in the 90’s on their PDAs. Just like the transition from VHS to DVD and now to Blu-Ray, older formats which were created to solve the problems faced at that time are replaced with newer formats that better meet need of today. Just why do so many different formats exist? Advances in technology? In fact, that’s a major reason. The Nook, the new reader from Barnes and Noble, can read EPUB, the same format as the Sony although there are now some catches with DRMed books.

Conversely, the Kindle does not support the EPUB format, and the Sony line does not support the Mobipocket format. In the rest of this article I will focus on (1) the Kindle which supports the Mobipocket format, aka MOBI, and (2) the Sony Reader line (the PRS machines like the PRS-600), which supports the EPUB format. There is a very good chance that you will be able to take an e-book and convert it to a format your reader supports, at least if the book doesn’t use Digital Rights Management, anti-copying technology.

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Often you can download these e-books in a variety of formats, but you won’t always find them in the format your e-book reader supports. Also, you can shop for the best prices at a number of small independent e-book stores.

Everything from public domain books to well known and less known authors.

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Many Web sites offer legal and often free books.

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If you are only buying from the store designed for your reader-for example, Amazon’s Kindle Store or Sony’s Reader Store-you don’t need to worry about any of this.īut there are a very good reasons why you should know about the major formats, what you reader supports and how to convert between formats. In e-books, the same confusion exists-the Tower of eBabel, as some call it. This mess is like the one in the music world where you might find such formats as WMA, MP3, and AAC. Unfortunately the two different brands don’t read the same kinds of e-books. Two of the most popular today are the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader line. – D.R.Į-book readers are becoming more and more common. The screenshot showing titles is from me-don’t blame John for any of the reading choices. Calibre is much improved, and I myself am in the middle of Calibre-izing my own collection. Welcome to TeleRead’s newest contributor, John Schember, a member of the team behind the wonderful Calibre program for managing e-book collections.

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