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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
None of the new devices seems to offer any improvements over my Sony PRS-505, at least none that appeal to me.
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Why do they need to?
My car is a lot older than my 505 ... so is the chair I'm sitting in, the T-shirt I'm wearing, and the roof over my head. They haven't been improved because they've already got it right. If the 505 does what you want (and from the number of them out there, it appears that for a lot of us, it does) why is its improvement necessary? Contrary to what the people selling us things want us to believe, we don't need to buy new things all the time if our existing things do what we need to have done.
I'm happy with my 505, with the thousands of public domain books on it, with the Tim Myers ebooks I bought yesterday, and with the third Hammer's Slammers collection (completed my set! yay!) I just got from Baen. It does what I need, and shows every sign of continuing to do what it did when I bought it -- something which I needed, and thought was worth the price, back then, and haven't changed my mind since.