*MY* personal thoughts about the Amazon ‘Kindle’ project are that it makes no sense for Amazon to build its own eInk reader at this time. And that has nothing to do with whether the Bookeen device gains support for eReader, Mobipocket, .epub or MS Reader formats. Amazon is not a manufacturer and coming up with its own design would require a commitment to the whole R&D process that would, in my view, be completely outside Amazon’s mission goals. However, as I’m not, as far as I know, descended from Cassandra, I could have guessed wrong.

As for image support in Mobipocket, well, repeat after me, eInk readers are NOT PDAs. That said, I don’t have enough knowledge of the internals of Mobipocket to know where this ‘problem’ lies. To be quite honest, on my Axim PDA, I use Microsoft Reader and eReader Pro. But Jpeg is a mature image format and there’s no reason for not supporting jpeg images on the Bookeen device – it certainly has the screen real estate for it.

Derek