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Originally Posted by pikelet
I saw a demo movie of the touch screen that sold me on the Sony.
But mostly it came down to aesthetics: Kindle has too many buttons, doesn't come in colors, looks more plasticky.
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I've never owned a Kindle, but may I make another argument in favor of Sony, apart from the 'locked-in' nature of the Kindle eco-system?
Sturdiness. I fell on concrete while carrying my 505, and found myself far more worried about my reader than about myself (although I was injured enough that I had to go home from work for the afternoon).
The reader was fine - a very slight, almost unnoticeable ding in the plastic strip on the top. Now when I drop it, I have no cares because I know the reader is sturdy enough to take it.
If I had a plastic reader - nook, Kindle, etc - I'd be constantly worried about it. Because it will be dropped from time to time, it's the nature of gravity.