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My wife wanted one so we got one. Personally I'm not entirely happy with the lack of control that comes with the platform - being able to read ePub content would have been nice, for instance, likewise being able to read arbitrary HTML or PDF content loaded via card slot or LAN (you can load PDFs on the current Kindle, but you have to send them via email... it's pretty convenient, but I do tend to favor a more direct approach)

In particular, personally, I wouldn't be satisfied with being unable to load a bunch of stuff from Project Gutenberg. (They have HTML-formatted stuff these days, right?) Converting to PDF is far from ideal because it forces formatting choices - I haven't looked through the Amazon store enough to know how many public domain titles are available for free, as they (mostly*) should be.

(* "mostly" because there is value in a good edition, especially an illustrated or carefully formatted edition...)

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NAME

       apertium-gen-deformat - This application is part of ( apertium )

       This tool is part of the apertium open-source machine translation toolbox: http://www.apertium.org.

SYNOPSIS

       apertium-gen-deformat [ -a | -A | -m | -M ] <input file> <output file>

DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

       -a     Runs in apertium standard mode.

       -A,    Runs in apertium optimised mode (default)

       -m     Runs in matxin standard mode  (matxin is another open-source machine translation system: http://www.sourceforge.org/matxin)

       -M     Runs in matxin optimised mode

       -h, --help
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SEE ALSO

       apertium-gen-reformat(1), apertium-translator(1), apertium(1).

BUGS

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AUTHOR

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