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Originally Posted by Elonwy
You go to the store and find an E-reader. You buy it, bring it home, and fill it with all of your books. Then in a couple of months you look at it, and say maybe I can find a better one. You go to the store again, buy another E-reader but this one isn't as good as the first one.
Let me guess...You give it away or sell it, and go back to the first E-reader. The cycle starts all over with you again wondering if there is another E-reader out there that is shinier and better then the first one you gave up on.
Where does the cycle stop? Are E-readers just a quick fix to you or a cheap date that ends in a one-night stand?  |
I think she might be right. Everytime I try to settle with an E-Reader another tempts me from the window displays. All new and pretty with a slightly different shape than last year's model. Do I truly just use them, and toss them aside when something better comes along? When the Sony 505 came out I bought that, and was very happy with it. But I was a novice back then, didn't think having a cover on the reader was a needful thing. Two broken screens later I learned my lesson.
After this I became a wanderer. I tried to make sure that whenever I moved on to a new Reader the old one had a home. My mom, my wife, and my wife's best friend all have inheritated my castoffs. Or I sold them. Ah well, I just can't help it with the E-Readers. I like E-Ink, and I like having books in my pocket; used to be one paperback, but now thousands ride with me at all times.
The Kobo so far is very close to what I'm looking for. I think I'm ready for a serious commitment, even if it doesn't want to hold my entire library. It's slowing down after a thousand books, becoming sluggish, and I might have to limit what I let it handle.
The friend I'm trying to convince of abandoning dead trees gave me back the Simple Touch; claimed he would have no time to read books. I was appalled, but took the reader, anyway. Who can't find the time to read? I'll snatch moments in anyplace I'm at: grocery store, doctor's office, my own office, bathroom. No place is not without a chance for a few paragraphs.
I think I might hold onto the Simple Touch. So far it rides in my left cargo pocket, and the Kobo in my right. As long as they don't know about each other I might be able to juggle them for years yet to come. I won't abandon them to the whole one-night stand scenerio-or should I say one-book scenerio?
