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Originally Posted by rblover
The Pocketbook has 64MB of RAM, NO text to speech capability, AND costs $90.00 more than a Kindle...and I should buy it why?
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Well, you might need more than 4GB of storage.
(I just bought a superbly-formatted PD library of 25,000+ PD ebooks that comes on two DVDs. I copied them to an SD card and put the card in my PB360. Took 8 minutes to copy to the card and ten seconds to boot the reader. And I still have room for my commercial ebook collection.)
Or you might want to directly load up ePubs, FB2, rtf, doc, etc
(Some of us have been doing ebooks since the last century; Calibre is a good converter but it isn't perfect.)
You might want to access library ebooks.
You might want to access Google crapscans (I know, not likely, but you *can*.)
You might want to organize you books by folders as well as by tags.
You might want to be able to copy, move, rename or delete ebooks right on the device.
You might want to read in a font of your choice, not just Caecillia in one of three variants. (I rather favor Georgia, myself.)
You might want to control font size, spacing, margins, and styles globally, in one point increments.
You might want to switch between books without going through the bookshelf.
Or, maybe you just want a compact eink reader that does all of the above and fits in your front pants pocket. And doesn't need a $30-60 leather case to be safely carried about. (Pocketbook 360)
Even in pantyhose, one size does not fit all.
There is room for more than one vision of what an ebook reader should be just as there is room for more than one ebook format.
Variety is good.
Competition is good.
Maybe the virtues of Pocketbook have no use to you.
In which case you are lucky Kindle's virtues are as affordable as they are.
But to some of us they are easily worth the extra $60 for the PB360.
And some of us are lucky to be able to get both for less than what the original Kindle sold for.
It is nice to have a choice and be able to make up *our* minds what meets *our* needs.