The Universal Declaration of E-Reader Rights

 It's no secret that I am a Kobo Fanboy.  I've blogged about it a few times before.  What drew me to in the first place... Well price first and foremost.  All's I needed was an ebook reader, no embedded mp3 player, no wi-fi interface, no automatic transmission and comfort package.  Just the basics.  Kobo had that covered.  Another thing that measured high in my list of criteria was support for open standards.  I didn't want a machine that read a proprietary format.  I'm looking right at you Kindle.  Once I saw that the Kobo supported the epub format and that was what you got once you bought a title from their store that pushed it to the top of the list.

The next story in the saga was that Kobo started to diversify and allow people to bring over ebooks purchased from other platforms to the Kobo Desktop app.  Add to that support for ereading on Android devices and things just gets better.  I think Kobo gets the idea selling as a service and not a lock-in black box device. Not to mention price cuts, and being sold at Borders in the States.  

The latest salvo is the "EReaders Bill of Rights" Kobo Style.  Be sure to wipe away that tear after reading the post.

1. The Right to Get Your Books Out

2. The Right to Get your Books In

3. The Right to Preserve Your Library

4. The Right to Freedom of Movement

5. DRM if Necessary, but not Necessarily DRM

Someone finally gets it.  Read the whole manifesto, "No Book gets Left Behind".. Awesome.  This makes me overlook all the Kobo pandering at TIFF.