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Originally Posted by ficbot
I have owned a Sony, a Libre and a Kindle and of the three, I prefer the Kindle because it has two features I use that other readers do not have (multilanguage dictionary support and text to speech). If it were not for those two features which made me upgrade, I probably would have been happy to keep my Sony. The Libre, I found its formatting not as nice (line spacing was not always maintained). And I have also tried a Kobo and while both of my parents have them and are happy, I did not like it and would not recommend it. It feels very slow and pokey to me compared to my Kindle.
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Its funny but the last place I worked before here was as a firmware engineer at Sony in SF and had ready access to all of their toys (and got to keep the ones I worked on). When I was in the market for an ereader they just had that first model out that mangled PDF files and generally didn't play well with others so I wound up buying a British one (CoolER) and my wife liked it so much I had to order her one the following week. I loved that ereader but to face facts, though the tech support was really good (and didn't treat me like a moron) after about 6 firmware updates (this was some seriously 1.0A stuff) they still couldn't get them to be stable. Since I have better things to do with my scant off-hours then play tech support, I just went and got us a couple of the cheap Nooks. They are OK but in serious need of features. So far however they have been quite stable and reliable. I thought about the Kindle but since Barnes and Noble is just down the street I figured if something went wrong I could just drive down there and get same-day service...