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Originally Posted by HarryT
On the other hand, the Gen3 supports dictionary lookup - a major lack of the Sony. It has a user-replaceable battery, which means that if you keep it a few years and the battery starts to lose its power, you'll just have to buy a replacement battery rather than send the machine away from repair. If you plan to read "best sellers", there are more commercial eBooks available in Mobi format than any other by a considerable margin.
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Ok, what I just did was have a look at the current Ney York Times Hardcover fiction best seller list. I took the top 20 books and look for them at BooksOnBoard then Fictionwise, and finally Mobipocket. Most of these books are available as ebooks. 2 of the ones that are ebooks are not available in MS Reader (LIT) format. Those were available at Mobipocket. But they were also available at Sony's Connect Store for less then at Mobipocket for those 2 ebooks. Yes you would end up with more DRM laden bestsellers going with the Gen3 if you bough Mobipocket format which by the way, at BooksOnBoard are mostly more expensive then the MS Reader editions and for the two books you have to buy with DRM, Connect has then cheaper. Not all of the Mobi formats are more expensive. Just some. So as I see it, I can get most of the top 20 bestselling hardcover books as ebooks onto the 505 with a lower cost then I could do for the Gen3. I would like to have said all, but some are not available in any ebook format.