The table below shows the comparison of the commonly used e book formats and their supported most popular E Readers.
| E Readers | Plain text | ePub | HTML | Mobi- Pocket | DjVu | |
| Amazon Kindle 1 | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Amazon Kindle 2, DX | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Amazon Kindle 3 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Amazon Kindle Fire | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Android Devices | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Apple iOS Devices | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Barnes & Noble Nook | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Barnes & Noble Nook Color | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Kobo eReader | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Mac OS X | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sony Reader | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Windows Phone 7 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Notice that Kindle Fire supports both ePub and Mobi (Update! It seems that we still cannot directly read the ePub format file on Kindle, but see my post " How to read EPUB books on Kindle Fire" ) which is not the case for e ink kindles. Also no information available in this table regarding the new generation Kindle family, which might be similar to that of Kindle 3 (keyboard).
While readers should keep in mind that these formats can (almost if not) always be converted to each other by some e book software such as the most popular Calibre.
Ref:
Comparison of e-book formats. (2011, December 26). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:05, December 26, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_e-book_formats&oldid=467711671
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