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Originally Posted by mikij
I fill my reader up once a month (put all the titles I think i"ll read a given month), then forget my reader's connection to computer, unless I need to charge the battery. How often do you download ebooks to your reader (not to your PC)?
For me, wi fi is really not necessary. Actually, it is a buzzword, it is attractive, but for downloading ebooks I don't find it essential.
Concerning the Sony store, it is not a disaster, but is quite bad (the choice of eboks is poor).
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Wireless has three components for me:
1. The obvious one, which is downloading books.
2. A little less obvious, which is syncing books across devices, being iPad, iPhone, & when it arrives, K3.
3. And finally, sampling.
I was in Borders today. I found several interesting books, one of which I bought in hardcover because I plan to keep it. But 3 others are now on my iPad & iPhone as samples. If I like them, I will buy 2 as ebooks & will consider the other as a pbook.
Among the factors I considered in my purchase planning which tilted me toward the ebooks is that my sons can also download them to read, and that the ebooks lend themselves to mobile reading. The hardback purchase will be read at home in my easy chair, & my sons are not likely to be interested in that book for a while (it's about aging in Shakespeare.)
For me, mobile reading consists of travel situations (iPad or K3) or commuting (K3 or iPhone.) Connectivity allows me to make purchases at any point, and to sync what I reading in whatever context.