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Originally Posted by nowthenmobile
After searching around it seems like the only show in town (the UK) (aside from the Kindle) is Sony. If you look on ebay, the second hand ones are mostly Sonys. Ebay's second-hand prices are preposterous; I can't understand the bidders. They knock a third off the price to buy a used piece of old technology. Waterstones have an attractive deal on the Sony PRS 350 (£139 I think) but I think we might miss the extra 1 inch. What I don't understand is how the other manufacturers are competing with Kindle and Sony. Some of them are charging the same kind of price as Sony but without the brand confidence of the Sony - Strange. I think the 650 looks like the business but at twice the price of the Kindle 3 it's not an easy sell. It strikes me that this is not really the right time to buy - just as the new high contrast screen is entering the market. When everyone has upgraded then prices will be a little keener. Maybe I should buy a Kindle and just fill it with classics and occasionally take advantage of Amazon's cheap prices. Still, the ability to borrow ePUBs would be such an advantage....and I despise Amazon for not reading ePUBs. I think it is anti-competitive, but it is people like me that allow them to get away with it.
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Well as an owner of both a 5" and 6" device I can say this. The 5" was my first ereader and I love(d) it. I found it rather easy to read on. Then I bought my Kindle. The 6" size is nice. I use approximately the same font size on both, but get more words to the screen on the Kindle, so less page turns. Not a big issue. What I have found thus far is; the larger screen is nicer to read when sitting back relaxing at home and reading, the 5" unit is far far more portable when going places (I am a bloke so no hand bags to put it into, shirt/pants pocket is all I have). I did try to take the Kindle out once but to me it felt a little awkward carting it around.
My opinion is, if you only read at home, 6" is the way to go. If you intend to take it places on a regular basis, a 5" is the better option.
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Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina
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Something that I felt was left out of the article was the fact that Amazon has complete control over the .mobi/azw format. Epub is an open standard and would probably be more difficult to make accepted changes to. Also it would tie down Amazon with Adobe (unless they offered another form of DRM to satisfy publishers, then it raises the question as to why they would move in the first place).
All in all though, good article to read.