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Originally Posted by clintbradford
Yes, it is. But as I suspected - for ME - when I pick up the K3, I find myself messin' with its connectivity issues. If I want to READ, the Kobo gets picked up with me as I leave the house ...
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I did that for a couple days when I first got my K1. It was a novelty. Now I just read unless I actually have something I want to search or I'm buying a book after I read the sample. Those are the sorts of things where I find the connectivity really adds to my reading experience. It's nice to be able to pop over to Wikipedia and check on a historical time line or literary reference. Plus, I like being able to read samples of all my books before I buy them. With the Kindle, I don't have to concern myself about whether I'll be near a computer when I finish a sample.
I don't think the Kobo is a bad device but it's definitely not for me. When I got my first Kindle, the drop-dead, must-have features for me were search and dictionary look-up. Annotation was also a pretty big deal but I was willing to skip it if I had to. It irked me that these features were so rare. We have computing power and text. Can't we bring those together to do something besides just show pages? Sadly, the only e-ink product that offered that at the time was the iRex. It was heavy, buggy, had horrible battery life and was hundreds more than other readers. Now I don't mind a reader being a unitasker but for me, if you're going to focus on one thing, you should find a way to make it better. I want a reader to do things a paper book can't do aside from just being a better storage unit. A Kindle isn't a good multitasker but people tend to think of it in those terms because of the connectivity. It's primarily a reader that uses Internet connectivity to help you make more of your reading. If people were commonly using it as a Web-browsing device, the 3G wireless wouldn't be free.