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For whatever reason, Amazon has made an amazing push to get the Kindle recognized -- all these reviews, and this morning on WBUR (Boston University public radio station) there was an entire hour dedicated to it primarily (and only obliquely discussing other readers). The most distubing thing was that none of the guests had actually used a reader for any great length of time, and so didn't speak very much to how similar the experience of using a reader to reading a book (at least it has been in my experience with the Sony Reader), and discussed the cool extras far more than the actual reading experience and the fact that such devices are the only way (outside a computer) to read the vast library of out of print books which make up Project Gutenberg.
And the only negative voice was a person who is averse to all electronic reading devices, rather than anybody who could knowingly address any actual shortcoming of the Kindle.
Amazon has far better publicity muscle than Sony, it seems!
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