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Originally Posted by fafaforza
Yup, adding wifi/3g would only distract you into checking forums, feeds, etc. It's bad enough that I can barely get through one article without losing focus. I started reading more and bought my reader to regain some of that attention span I lost in all the tech stuff I have today.
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That's exactly it. For me the danger lies in always wanting to check my subscriptions in Google Reader. Most of which are, of course, about ebooks...
On another topic -- I did try, yesterday to set up an account with Borders (one of Sony's partners here in Australia), to see what the ebook-buying experience is like.
What a disaster, I couldn't even follow it. First install this, then log into that, then click on that... soon I couldn't tell whether I had the right software installed or not, and exactly what account I was trying to log in with what details ... and I'm not (normally) thick when it comes to this stuff. Oh the humanity...
First there was Sony's layer of 'stuff', and then there was Borders layer of 'stuff' (which somehow ended up also involving Kobo's layer of yes ... 'stuff' ... in the end the instruction "open your library" left me with glazed eyes and the phrase "which f***ing library?" echoing round my bsod'ed brain.
Someone needs to explain to these folk that they need to make buying their ebooks simple, not an exercise similar to navigating a maze.
Perhaps I missed something, I'll have another go at it sometime soon. Unfortunately for Borders, there's no rush. I have plenty to read, gathered from sources which involved clicking on a link to an epub file, then watching it automatically load into Calibre. How tricky is that...