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Ok, the Sony Reader physical design is way superior to a Kindle. The Kindle has so many oversized next/previous page buttons that it jumps pages if I even sneeze in its general direction.
So what? The Kindle is revolutionary for one simple reason. It actually has made me an avid book/newspaper reader again. Something the Sony never achieved.
1. Sony never delivered on their promise to offer periodicals on the Sony reader.
2. With the Sony Reader, if I was sitting at work, bathroom, in-bed, or anywhere and think of a book I wanted, I had to remember it, and then wait until the next time I was at my home PC (the one PC of the 4 I use all day that has the Sony Connect software) to buy it and download it, then plug in my Reader and sync it. In practice this rarelly happened because by the time I got to my PC I forgot what book I wanted and I lost my 'drive/impulse' to buy it. So the end result if I found myself barelly reading books on my Sony Reader.
3. Then comes the Kindle... and browsing/buying/opening/viewing/trying books is SO easy, I find myself reading a book a night, something I had not done in YEARS. Then add to that the pre-delivered periodical content, and I am in content heaven.
The Kindle is my winner for the simple fact it has made me a reader again.
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