Originally Posted by Vennegoor:
“The glare can be annnoying, but as I say the funcionality wins for me.
The price of the Sony is dearer, but the ability to borrow books from your local public library on your ebook is a big thing for the future, quite a few already do it, and you need the EPUB compatible devices to do it.
Guess I just hate being tied to one format. Dislike iTunes for the same reason, even though I have an iPhone.”
“The glare can be annnoying, but as I say the funcionality wins for me.
The price of the Sony is dearer, but the ability to borrow books from your local public library on your ebook is a big thing for the future, quite a few already do it, and you need the EPUB compatible devices to do it.
Guess I just hate being tied to one format. Dislike iTunes for the same reason, even though I have an iPhone.”
For me a good screen is #1 priority. I don't care much for any bells and whistles if the device isn't best at it was made for. But I hear the new Sony readers have the same screens as Kindle 3, so that should solve that problem.
I read somewhere that Amazon is supposed to be working on a feature that should allow one Kindle user who bought a book to lend it for a limited time to another user. They only have to allow that one user to be a library, too.
I do not feel tied to Kindle. If DRM stays as it is, I can buy books in EPUB format, too and convert them to MOBI. You need a certain experience for that, but it's not a rocket science either. But anyway, I think that at the moment Amazon cares more about their customers. They are doing it for their own benefit, of course, they want to make money both from readers and the books, but users benefit from that, too. With Sony you are on your own, to find a way how to set up the computer, the reader to be able to buy DRM protected books, etc.




) - surely it won't be long before some hacking gang manages to turn participating Kindles into a network of bots or whatever it is they do (the finer points of computer crime are a little bit lost on me