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Originally Posted by boswd
But the point is with all things being equal in regards to price WHY would you NOT want the wireless connection. It's not email or twitter or any of that junk. and also you can still sideload manually you just now have both options for the same price.
the ability to buy a book online and then almost in an instant have it on your device. Or sitting somewhere and feel like buying a newspaper especially if you are out of town and have it no matter where you are in really a fantastic feature.
The point is it's not a case of having only one way to receive books or papers but to have the obtion to have both features for the same price.
To me it just doesn't make any sense.
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I don't need wireless. Before I go on holidays or go anywhere, I take the time and effort to sit down and organise a list of books I want to read when away. Then it is a simple matter to connect my ereader (either one, does not matter) and transfer that list via USB.
I always take far more to read than I can actually read, a practice I have carried out since my paperback days.
Even when my PDA was the prime ereader I used, I did not use the bluetooth or wireless connectivity it offered. I want to read, not navigate through web pages to buy books. I will do that at home through a nice wide open DSL connection and a big colour screen which is precisely what my PC was purchased to do.
Why should extra wireless connectivity costs or time taken to configure the reader for free connectivity add to the burden of a holiday?
If others want to have all the bells and whistles, then fine, more power to them. Not me.
Reading is my periodic escape from the stresses of my job and the world around me.