Are the telescreens-like platforms really inevitable? Do we really want authors, publishers and readers to allow computer vendors to push everyone towards Farenheit 451-style book and content control? Do we want the electronic tools with which we read and learn to be stuck in some remotely controlled read-only mode?

Thankfully, there are existing alternatives to the various iWhatever sirens luring people into tinkering-hostile fully DRM-controlled platforms: FBreader to read and manage your ebooks, Calibre and Sigil or epub-tools to create them. All these you can install today on existing platforms. It's worth pointing out that the ePub open standard can also take advantage of the flexibility of @font-face.

Check out the ePub Zen Garden.

Let's not give up our ability to read what we want, keep it and/or share it even with complex writing systems the market does not care about for whatever shiny new device locked down to one single profit-oriented provider.