Thread: Amazon: Paying a Price for Going Cheap
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Old 07-30-2010, 02:03 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by mikij View Post
I wont certainly go with them (I don't need the cheapest, plastic reader, I need the quality). Yes, they are going cheap but we'll see the results. They are opposite of Sony, which always tries to give the best possible quality to customers (but sometimes fail, like in Beta, and sometimes win, like in Blu-Ray).
COUGH*BULLSHIT*COUGH! I've got TWO K2s and they're quite solid and reliable. They're noticeably heavier than my Bookeen Cybook Gen3s and even *that* device is reliable - as long as I don't do something stupid like drop it 4-6 feet onto a concrete surface, or put it in my back pocket then SIT on it!

The K2 is a user-friendly design and the K3 looks to be the same. But yes, I like the idea of a lighter device - the one complaint I had for the K2 over the Gen3. And given how many ebooks I buy in .epub and convert to .mobi using Calibre, I don't really *need* 3G... So, yes, *I* will be spending $139 for a WiFi K3.

Derek
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