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Taylor514ce · 11-12-2010, 01:37 PM

There's nothing wrong with the PRS-505 per se; I only meant that in terms of enthusiasm, the devices themselves are next to meaningless (for me). I don't care for touch screen, don't need wifi or any other connectivity to a particular store, and so on.

Perhaps everything is just moving too slowly for my impatient tastes. I want to buy any title, at a reasonable price, from any book vendor, online or brick-and-mortar. Why can't I plug a USB drive into a Kiosk at Barnes and Noble and buy any title and have it work on whatever device I own?

Why can't I, on an airplane sitting next to a Kindle owner, talk about what we've read recently, and at some point say, "I think you'd like THIS, I'm through reading it, you can have my copy..."?

If I do ever "get rid of" my PRS-505, will I still own the books I purchased? Or does the industry still think I didn't really buy a book, but rather licensed content for a particular device?

So I've decided I will not purchase any books, in any format, again. Yes, there is Overdrive, and I use it, and I will borrow books from friends or from the library and keep on reading.

But the e-book phenomenon, for this adopter, has been squashed by the publishing industry, and so they've lost a customer.

11-12-2010, 01:37 PM	#42
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	There's nothing wrong with the PRS-505 per se; I only meant that in terms of enthusiasm, the devices themselves are next to meaningless (for me). I don't care for touch screen, don't need wifi or any other connectivity to a particular store, and so on. Perhaps everything is just moving too slowly for my impatient tastes. I want to buy any title, at a reasonable price, from any book vendor, online or brick-and-mortar. Why can't I plug a USB drive into a Kiosk at Barnes and Noble and buy any title and have it work on whatever device I own? Why can't I, on an airplane sitting next to a Kindle owner, talk about what we've read recently, and at some point say, "I think you'd like THIS, I'm through reading it, you can have my copy..."? If I do ever "get rid of" my PRS-505, will I still own the books I purchased? Or does the industry still think I didn't really buy a book, but rather licensed content for a particular device? So I've decided I will not purchase any books, in any format, again. Yes, there is Overdrive, and I use it, and I will borrow books from friends or from the library and keep on reading. But the e-book phenomenon, for this adopter, has been squashed by the publishing industry, and so they've lost a customer.