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Originally Posted by millydog
The new readers look great to me. I would like a 650, but my plan is to look after my 8yo daughter first. I think that I will get her a pink 350 for either her birthday (in December) or Christmas. My daughter has a medical condition that means she is behind her peers with her reading skill level. She is still progressing though & I am pleased with her progress. She is interested in my gadgets & I think that a 350 would be the perfect device to help her develop her reading skills.
I am actually happy that the 350 is not a connected device since then I don't have to worry about her buying books om-line without my knowledge. Lol
However, the ability to buy on-line directly on my Kindle 2 is my reason for currently favoring that reader. My husband is currently using my 505 & I do miss it though, but I can't be too greedy, i will let him use it for now since I am using the Kindle 2 at the moment.
My husband likes the 505 & I am also considering getting him a black 650 for Christmas.
So then, three of us will have Sony Readers & I will have a Kindle 2 as well. My other daughter is 4 & not reading yet, so she can wait. Lol. Amazon books are about a third of the price in many cases. So that is my dilemma, what to do going forward & where to buy my books. It would be so nice to not have to worry about the DRM so as we could buy the most cost effective or best formatted version & then each use our reader of choice.
Anyway, one other good thing about Sony finally releasing their Readers here in Australia is that I hope I can then change my location to Australia & be able to buy books from Sony, rather than having to buy vouchers to spend.
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Great post! I love to hear about people using Readers for their family!
I want to encourage you on using "gadget fascination" as way to encourage your daughter's reading. It makes it more fun and interesting, even though the ultimate task is the same. I can speak from an analogous experience. I once gave my wife a Bible -- leather bound, and the whole nine yards -- which she promptly filed away and never read. A while later, I found a pocket Bible for myself (back in the old days when books were only paper), which I wanted for portability. She exclaimed "that's so cute!" when she saw it, and proceeded to procure it for herself and read it cover-to-cover! The big huge Bible with 10 million references and footnotes everywhere was just too intimidating. But she was so impressed with the little one, she enjoyed holding it and reading it.
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However, the dilemma that I feel that I have is that I will be split with reading devices requiring different DRM. I cannot buy Kindle devices, read the book & then put it on the Sony Reader for my husband.....so I feel like I should give up the Kindle so as we can share books, but then the ebooks in Australian on-line stores are still too expensive.
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Yes, this is the standing issue with DRM. It's a lock in, and can also lead to obsolescence of your content if done badly. You can, however, un-DRM books from the Sony store and have them in the clear for reading on any device.
The other issue you have is one of format incompatibility. The Kindle format is not compatible with the Sony Reader, even if it didn't have DRM. Similarly, the Kindle cannot display ePUB (which completely boggles my mind). So even you had every book in the clear, you could not swap them between the Sony and the Kindle.
-Pie