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This is my first dedicated reader but I've been looking at them for a while. I would've bought the Irex but the price was too rich for me. The Sony is nice but I didn't like the way it felt in my hands. I have arthritis so hand feel is very, very important. Also, even though I own many Sony devices I wasn't sold on their ability to provide books. Sony's software tends to be, how should I say this, lacking. I bought DH a Sony laptop, he needed one that day and that was the best I could find, and ended up stripping it down to the operating system and adding in better programs than what Sony provided. DH is a very happy man.
For me the Kindle experience is excellent. Minimal eye fatigue, my picture is located under the phrase "blind as a bat", decent battery life as long as I turn off the wireless and minimize my SD card accesses. The side buttons are a pain but I put the Kindle to sleep when I put it down. Page turns are definitely slower when reading off the card and they're slower for the smaller fonts.
The hand feel is almost perfect. I can easily hold the Kindle even with my big hands and don't have to grip it, it can lay in my hand.
I'm not all that thrilled with the web browsing but that's not why I bought it.
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