Want to tour the Tower of E-Babel to understand the extent of the format mess? Check out the interesting MemoWare site and you’ll find dozens of e-book formats. This is a geek’s paradise, a reader’s nightmare. What’s especially frustrating is to see books in exotic formats but not ASCII. A universal consumer format from the Open eBook Forum, anyone?

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