I've recently become a bit disillusioned with Amazon's Kindle. Mostly because of the Topaz format that more of Amazon's e-books are being supplied in. I won't knowingly buy an e-book in that format. edit: Pretty much means I'm not going to be buying e-books from Amazon.
what the format itself is doing - taking scans of fixed pages and turning them into a transparently reflowable format - it's pretty amazing.
(from here) I'll admit the format is a neat hack, take a book, scan all the pages, decompose the scans into small images, I'm presuming word level images, remove redundant images, all the while generating playback sequences for same. Then for display flow the images back together as needed. (My interpretation of what is happening.)
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