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Jason van Gumster mostly makes stuff up. He writes, animates, and occasionally teaches, all using open source tools. He's run a small, independent animation studio, wrote Blender For Dummies and GIMP Bible, and continues to blurt out his experiences during a [sometimes] weekly podcast, the Open Source Creative Podcast. Adventures (and lies) at @monsterjavaguns.
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Oooh! Good catch. I've gone in and updated that part of the article. Thank you!
While it's certainly more common to use tools like this when you're on the content creation side of the fence (as opposed to consuming content). However, when you do have large libraries of files (ebooks, music, videos, etc.), a lot of people like to homogenize their files so they're all the same format. For instance, if you have a variety of ebooks and they're a mix of PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and plain text, you might run into problems reading those ebooks on some devices. But if you convert all of those books to EPUB, you then at least have a solid and consistent baseline from which to work.