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reeder · 08-11-2008, 10:17 AM

Amazon wins easily. Sony burned me too many times with their Reader and their overpriced, horribly formatted ebooks and lousy customer service that doesn't care about you once they have your money already. One cutomer rep even brazenly told me "If you don't like it, go get a damn Kindle." Well fine then! Screw them.

Amazon = excellent customer service, they'll even replace a Kindle totally(!), excellent low prices on ebooks, more ebook content by far, word search, integrated dictionary, wikipedia, internet access, you can make notes in the thing, and i could go on.

Screw Sony's Reader. The Amazon Kindle's got this market by the head now and it's only getting stronger. If I could, I would have bought a Kindle instead. Guess I'll have to wait until Kindle 2.0 comes out.

(This is coming from a owner of the Sony PRS 505 btw. I know people who have Kindles and we have swapped devices for a week. The winner is the Kindle all the way.)

08-11-2008, 10:17 AM	#13
reeder Member Posts: 24 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Sony Reader 505	Amazon wins easily. Sony burned me too many times with their Reader and their overpriced, horribly formatted ebooks and lousy customer service that doesn't care about you once they have your money already. One cutomer rep even brazenly told me "If you don't like it, go get a damn Kindle." Well fine then! Screw them. Amazon = excellent customer service, they'll even replace a Kindle totally(!), excellent low prices on ebooks, more ebook content by far, word search, integrated dictionary, wikipedia, internet access, you can make notes in the thing, and i could go on. Screw Sony's Reader. The Amazon Kindle's got this market by the head now and it's only getting stronger. If I could, I would have bought a Kindle instead. Guess I'll have to wait until Kindle 2.0 comes out. (This is coming from a owner of the Sony PRS 505 btw. I know people who have Kindles and we have swapped devices for a week. The winner is the Kindle all the way.) Last edited by reeder; 08-11-2008 at 10:26 AM.