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Originally Posted by Alisa
What's amazing me is the hate on the Amazon reviews. Almost 200 reviews now and hardly any of them have actually used the product. There are tons of one star reviews that don't even seem to grasp the point. So many of them are the typical Engadget "what do you mean it doesn't even have color?" variety.
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To be fair, there have been many negative comments on-line about the Sony Reader because it lacks color, does not have a backlight, or the screen flashes when changing pages. I think most of the negative comments come from people who have never seen the EInk display or if they have, only looked at it briefly and think it should be like an LCD display. A lot of people, including many reviewers for magazines or websites, have not yet grasped the concept of a reader which is dedicated to reading, lasts for days on a single charge, and is not a PDA or tablet PC.
OTOH, a good chunk of the negative Amazon reviews are people piling on because of the high profile launch.